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Creating An Amazon EC2 IAM User Group for 3rd Party Developers

When you're bringing on 3rd party developers to your AWS environment, you want to make sure that you don't give them too much access to your AWS Infrastructure. Our recommendation is to create a User Group, and then to add the 3rd party users to the User Group.

2. In the Console Home, Click on IAM 

3. Click on ‘User groups’

4. Click on ‘Create group’

 

5. Type “3rd-Party-Dev” for the name of the new User Group

6. Scroll down to the Attach permissions policies section. Type “PowerUserAccess” into the permission policies search bar.

7. Click next to PowerUserAccess

8. Click on ‘Clear filters’

9. Type “AmazonEC2FullAccess” into the permission policies search bar

10. Click on the checkbox next to AmazonEC2FullAccess

11. Click on Create group

12. Click on the new ‘3rd-Party-Dev’ group

13. Click on the ‘Add users’ button

AWS Add User to User Group

13. Find the user that you’d like to add to the group, and add them by clicking on the ‘Add users’ button.

AWS Add User to User Group

Jacob Murphy

Jacob Murphy

Jake is a writer and marketing associate for AllCode with a wealth of experience in a variety of industries.

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