How to Create a User Account & Group to Attach the Permission to Start & Stop the AWS Service - IAM Case Study
Problem Statement
You work for XYZ Corporation that uses on premise solutions and a limited number of systems. With the increase in requests in their application, the load also increases. So, to handle the load the corporation had to buy more systems almost on a regular basis. Realizing the need to cut down the expense on systems, they decided to move their infrastructure to AWS.
You now been asked for:
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(a) – Create a user account that can login to the console. (b) – Create a group and make sure that the group can only launch and stop EC2 instances using that previously created account.
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(a) – Provide permission to let the user of a previously created account to create VPC’s, Subnet, NACL & security groups. (b) – Further add the permission so that the user can create a RDS instance. (c) - Explore security options to protect the AWS Resources and secure the permission provided to the group.
For the detailed solution, please check this link: https://medium.com/devops-guides/how-to-create-a-user-account-group-to-attach-the-permission-to-start-stop-the-aws-service-12208c034d31