IAM and the AWS Management Console

The AWS Management Console provides a web-based interface for many AWS product APIs (such as the API for Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, and so on). Users can make requests directly to an API, or users can use the AWS Management Console to make requests to a service's API. Users who work with your AWS resources through the AWS Management Console will use your AWS account's IAM-enabled sign-in page and the passwords you create for them to access the console.

This section provides information about the IAM-enabled AWS Management Console sign-in page and explains how to create an AWS account alias for your sign-in page. For information about creating user passwords, see Managing Passwords.