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.
And you’re ready. Good luck 🙂