AWS Snowball User Guide
Next Step
To create an IAM user for yourself and add the user to an Administrators group
1. Use your AWS account email address and password to sign in as the AWS account root user to the
IAM console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/.
Note
We strongly recommend that you adhere to the best practice of using the Administrator
IAM user below and securely lock away the root user credentials. Sign in as the root user
only to perform a few account and service management tasks.
2. In the navigation pane of the console, choose Users, and then choose Add user.
3. For User name, type Administrator.
4. Select the check box next to AWS Management Console access, select Custom password, and then
type the new user's password in the text box. You can optionally select Require password reset to
force the user to create a new password the next time the user signs in.
5. Choose Next: Permissions.
6. On the Set permissions for user page, choose Add user to group.
7. Choose Create group.
8. In the Create group dialog box, type Administrators.
9. For Filter, choose Job function.
10. In the policy list, select the check box for AdministratorAccess. Then choose Create group.
11. Back in the list of groups, select the check box for your new group. Choose Refresh if necessary to
see the group in the list.
12. Choose Next: Review to see the list of group memberships to be added to the new user. When you
are ready to proceed, choose Create user.
You can use this same process to create more groups and users, and to give your users access to your
AWS account resources. To learn about using policies to restrict users' permissions to specific AWS
resources, go to Access Management and Example Policies.
To sign in as this new IAM user, sign out of the AWS Management Console, then use the following URL,
where your_aws_account_id is your AWS account number without the hyphens (for example, if your
AWS account number is 1234-5678-9012, your AWS account ID is 123456789012):
https://your_aws_account_id.signin.aws.amazon.com/console/
Type the IAM user name and password that you just created. When you're signed in, the navigation bar
displays "your_user_name @ your_aws_account_id".
If you don't want the URL for your sign-in page to contain your AWS account ID, you can create an
account alias. From the IAM dashboard, choose Create Account Alias and type an alias, such as your
company name. To sign in after you create an account alias, use the following URL:
https://your_account_alias.signin.aws.amazon.com/console/
To verify the sign-in link for IAM users for your account, open the IAM console and check under AWS
Account Alias on the dashboard.
If you're going to create Snowball jobs through an IAM user that is not an administrator user, that
user needs certain permissions to use the AWS Snowball Management Console effectively. For more
information on those permissions, see Creating an IAM User for Snowball (p. 79).
Next Step
Getting Started with AWS Snowball (p. 16)
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