Generate IAM user and access key

Generate IAM user and access key

  1. Go to IAM service administration interface
  • Click Users.

Role

  1. Click Add users

Role

  1. Set User name as iamaccesskey.
  • Click on Programmatic access. ( This option allows using access key and secret access key for AWS API , CLI , SDK )
  • Click Next: Permissions.

Role

  1. Click Attach existing policies directly.
  • In the Filter policies box, enter S3.
  • Click AmazonS3FullAccess, we will grant full access to access and upload files to the S3 bucket we created in the previous step.
  • Click Next: Tags.

Role

  1. Click Next: Review, then click Create user.

  2. After creating a successful user, click Show to display the Secret access key value.

  • Please save the Access key ID + Secret access key value pair to serve the following steps of the workshop.
  • You can also click Download .csv to download the Access key ID + Secret access key as csv.

Role

Next we will use the generated access key and secret access key to upload a file to the S3 bucket.