What are IAM Users in AWS?

• An IAM user is an entity that you create in AWS. It represents the person or service that uses the IAM user to interact with AWS.

• You can create 5 users at a time.

• An IAM user can represent an actual person or an application that requires AWS access to perform actions on AWS resources.

• The primary use for IAM users is to give people the ability to Sign-in into the AWS Management Console for interactive tasks and to make programmatic requests to AWS Services using the API or CLI.

For any user, you can assign them the following:-

• A username and password to access the AWS Console.

• An access Key ID and Secret Key that they can use for programmatic access.

• The Newly created IAM users have no password and no access key you need to create the user password.

• Each IAM user is associated with one and only one AWS account.

• Users are defined within your account, so users do not have to do payments. Bill would be paid by the Parent account.