Steps to create a new IAM user profile in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and provision an S3 Bucket

Today, I will provide the required steps to create a new IAM (Identity and Access Management) user profile (account) in AWS and provision an S3 bucket. However, before doing so, you may ask what exactly is an AWS S3 bucket and what is it used for.

The Amazon S3 (Simple storage service) is object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. A customer’s business size and/or data can take advantage of AWS’ S3 object storage service. Please follow this link for additional information (Amazon S3).

Creating a new user profile in AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management) section of the AWS Management Console.

Provision a new user account

1. Sign into the AWS Management console
2. Search for and select IAM

3) Select Users

4) Click Add users

5) Enter user name (Username can be a combination of up to 64 letters, digits and the following special characters: plus (+), equal (=), comma (,), period (.), at (@), underscore (_), and hyphen (-), they must be unique within an account and are not case sensitive. (Reference AWS link for more info).

6) Click Next: Permissions button

7) Select the Attach existing policies option, enter S3 in the filter policies search window and select AmazonS3FullAccess

8) Click Next: Tags button

9) Click Next: Review

10) Review and confirm the info that you entered for the new user

11) Select the Previous button to go back to a previous page to update a field or click the Create user button to complete the process.

12) You will receive this message if all data was entered correctly

13) Then click the Send email link to provide the user login info to the new user

Provision an AWS S3 bucket

1) Sign into AWS Management console as the new user

2) Search for and select S3

3) Click the Create bucket button

4) Enter bucket name and select the desired AWS Region

5) Accept the default settings for the remaining options unless instructed otherwise

6) Click the Create Bucket button

7) If successfully created you will receive this message for the newly created IAM user

You have successfully created a new user via Aws’ IAM and assigned an S3 bucket for object storage.