An IAM Role (Identity and Access Management Role) in AWS is a secure way to grant temporary access to AWS services and resources without needing to share long-term credentials (like IAM user access keys). In this tutorial we will look at how to create IAM roles and give it permissions so that the user or the service can have the privilege to access the resource.

Objectives

• To create IAM role

Requirements

• AWS Account

To Create IAM role

• Login to your aws account

• Click on the Search bar and Type IAM

• Click on IAM

• Click on users

• Click on Create user

• Type the name of the user

• Click on provde user access to aws management console

• Click on I want to create an IAM user

• Select wether you want aws to generate automatic password for you or you want to type the password

• Click on next

• Click on Attach policies direcly

• Search for the permission you the search box

• Select the permission

• Click on Create user

• Click on Create user

• 

  You can see the user created

To add more permission to the user

• Click on the user

You can do 2 things here. Either you add an already existing permission or you create you custom permission and attach. In our case we will attach an already existing permission

• Click on Add permission

Just like we did before we will select the add policy to

• Click on the permission

• Click on next

• Review click on Add Permission

How to create IAM role

• Click on role

• Click on create role

• Select your use case in our tutorial we will use ec2

• Click on next

• Type the name of the permission

• Check the permission you want to attach to the role

• Type the role name

• Click on Create role

You can see the role we just created