AWS Admin User Creation
(Protecting the Root Account)
Synopsis: Create Admin User Account > Create Admin Group > Attach AdministratorAccess Policy Add User to Group.
Creating the Admin User Account
Navigate to the Identity Access Management (IAM) Center.
Navigate to the IAM.
Select the Users option and create user.
Set a User name for this Account.
*Security Notice* MFA should be set up for this account since it has elevated permissions.
This step will be absent from this guide however this is required.
*We don’t have an admin group created to allocate permissions yet so we are going to create the account then the group and then role .*
Select Add user to Group, then select next.
Here we can see the user account that was just created.
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Next we will create the Admin User Group
Creating the Admin User Group
Next the User Group needs to be created.
Navigate to Identity and Access Management (IAM) -> User Groups and select Create Group.
Next we add the group name. For this example we will make Basic_Admin_Group_1.
Next I select the user to add to the group and then the Permission Policy for AdministratorAccess.
