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Setting user policies with IAM groups

Setting user policies with IAM groups - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: AWS Quick Tips for Developers

Setting user policies with IAM groups

- [Instructor] If you have a team of people working in your AWS account you should use different accounts for each person. And to manage the permissions on those accounts you can use groups. Groups allow you to specify permissions for any user in that group. We already have a group called Database with database permissions and Testers for the permissions they need. So it can be based off of a team, a role, or a concept. Lets create a new group called Buckets. We'll give it a name, click Next Step, and then we're going to search for S3 permissions. And we'll give them S3 full access. We'll click the Next Step and verify all the settings and create the group. Now from here, we can select Buckets and under Group Actions we can add users to the group and we can pick the users there or we can go to the specific users account and add a group to it under the Groups tab. They're already in the other group so I'm just going to add Buckets and now that users has access to all of our S3 buckets.…

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