Quick links to common tasks
Use the following links to get help with common tasks associated with IAM.
- Sign in as an IAM user
- Manage passwords for IAM users
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You need a password in order to access the AWS Management Console, including access to billing information.
For your AWS account root user, see Changing the AWS account root user password.
For an IAM user, see Managing passwords for IAM users.
- Manage permissions for IAM users
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You use policies to grant permissions to the IAM users in your AWS account. IAM users have no permissions when they are created, so you must add permissions to allow them to use AWS resources.
For more information, see Managing IAM policies.
- List the users in your AWS account and get information about their credentials
- Add multi-factor authentication (MFA)
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To add a virtual MFA device, see one of the following:
To add a U2F security key, see one of the following:
To add a hardware MFA device, see one of the following:
- Get an access key
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You need an access key if you want to make AWS requests using the AWS SDKs
, the AWS Command Line Tools , or the API operations. Important You can view and download your secret access key only when you create the access key. You cannot view or recover a secret access key later. However, if you lose your secret access key, you can create a new access key.
For your AWS account, see Managing Access Keys for your AWS Account.
For an IAM user, see Managing access keys for IAM users.
- Tag IAM resources
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You can tag the following IAM resources:
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IAM users
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IAM roles
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Customer managed policies
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Identity providers
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Server certificates
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Virtual MFA devices
To learn about tags in IAM, see Tagging IAM resources.
To learn about using tags to control access to AWS resources, see Controlling access to AWS resources using tags.
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- View the actions, resources, and condition keys for all services
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This set of reference documentation can help you write detailed IAM policies. Each AWS service defines the actions, resources, and condition context keys that you use in IAM policies. To learn more, see Actions, Resources, and Condition Keys for AWS Services.
- Get started with all of AWS
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This set of documentation deals primarily with the IAM service. To learn about getting started with AWS and using multiple services to solve a problem such as building and launching your first project, see the Getting Started Resource Center
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