How To Create A Free AWS Account – IAM & MFA

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AWS (Amazon Web Services) is world’s leading platform on cloud computing. It only takes few minutes to create a free account and jump into world of AWS. So let’s dive in.

Creating a free account is very straight forward. All you need is to do enter your email address, password and credit card information. As long as you don’t exceed free tier limitations you will be fine. No charges will be applied to your credit card. Click here to check free tier limitations and faq.

Please click on this link to goto AWS login page.

Use root account only to create accounts. Always enable MFA (multi-factor authentication) on all accounts.

Thing we’ll be doing

  • Creating an user with IAM
  • Creating admin group and adding user to it
  • MFA activation

Creating An User With IAM

IAM (identity access management) is AWS’s account management system. We’ll create a user with admin rights. IAM is a global service and it is free of charge.

Type iam in search panel and click on IAM
Click on Users on left panel then click on Add users.
Type a username for your admin account and create a password.
Click on Create group.
Type something meaningful for your Group name and choose AdministratorAccess.
Click on Administrators then click on Tags.
Creating Tags are optional. You can create something like above.
Review your settings then click on Create user.
User created successfully.
Click on the username that MFA will be enabled on.
With Virtual MFA device. You can use something like Google Authenticator.
First scan the QR code with your MFA App (Google auth. or MS auth.)
Type 2 consecutive MFA codes on your APP then click on Assign MFA.

And you’re ready. Good luck 🙂

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