Dear Reader, hope you are doing great today 🙂 . In this post, I will help you create IAM role using CloudFormation. While creating the role using CloudFormation we will learn various ways in which a policy can be attached to an IAM Role. In case you have just started with Read More
How to Provide Billing Access to an IAM User Have you ever tried to check your AWS account spent, being an IAM admin user and was greeted with cryptic access denied message instead? Well, I am sure, you must have 🙂 But, what If I tell you that, this is Read More
How to Enable MFA On Your Amazon AWS Root Account As you might already know, your Root account has full access to all the services in AWS. There is no way to limit this permission. Having said that, imagine if someone(hacker) gets hold of your root account !!! What do Read More
Error Message : Property AssumeRolePolicyDocument cannot be empty Problem: When you try to create an IAM role using AWS::IAM::Role resource and you don’t specify anything in AssumeRolePolicyDocument parameter, you get this error. I guess the error message itself is self explanatory that AssumeRolePolicyDocument can not be empty. If you check documentation for Read More
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Error Message : At least one of [Groups,Roles,Users] must be non-empty Problem: When you try to create an IAM policy using AWS::IAM::Policy and you don’t specify a user, group or role you want to apply this policy to. In other words, if you try to create a standalone IAM policy Read More
How to Enable MFA for your IAM User on AWS Dear Reader, In one of my previous post I explained how to create an IAM user step by step. As a security best practice, AWS highly recommends to setup MFA for your IAM user to protect your user from being Read More
Dear Reader, I hope you are doing great. Today, I am here with a post on how to create IAM user in AWS step by step. This is a beginner friendly tutorial. So don’t worry, if you have just started your journey with AWS. Apart from creating the user, we Read More
Dear Reader, In today’s post, I will help you understand the difference between Root User and IAM User in AWS in details. Let’s start with understanding each one of them. If you know them well, it will help you eventually understand the difference in a more clear way. So, shall Read More
Dear Reader, In my last post, I shared with you How to Launch an EC2 instance in an existing VPC. In this post, you will learn to attach an IAM role to an EC2 instance with CloudFormation. You will also see, how to attach existing IAM role to an EC2 Read More
It’s a very common practice to pass a role to AWS service to allow them to perform task on your behalf. Service can assume the passed role and perform all the task permitted by the role. Sounds easy and convenient- Right? 🙂 Now imagine a situation!!! A normal user(with limited Read More
