IAM User Groups

 










Characteristics

Some of the important characteristics of user groups are as follows:
  1. A user group may consist of many users and a user can also belong to the multiple user groups.
  2. User groups can't be nested; they can contain only users, not other user groups.
  3. No default user group containing all the users in the AWS account is automatically available, instead, you have to create it and link each user to it.
  4. The number and size of IAM resources in an AWS account is limited.

Creating IAM User Groups

In order to do that, firstly, you have to create the group, then give it the permissions accordingly, and add users to the group, thus, completing the process.

To create an IAM User group & attach policies (console)

  1. Similar to the processes discussed before, you have to sign-in to the AWS Management Console and then open the IAM console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/.
  2. Now, you can choose the User groups and then Create group in the navigation pane.
  3. Type the name of the group for the User group name.
  4. Choose the number of users you want to add to the group from the list of users.
  5. Now, from the list of policies, choose the policy you would like to apply to all the members of the group.
  6. Finally, you can Create group.

To create IAM user groups (AWS CLI or AWS API)

  1. AWS CLI: aws iam create-group.
  2. AWS API: CreateGroup.























































































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