AWS Networking Cookbook

Creating an admin user in AWS

Once the account is created, we should not use it for anything apart from creating an admin user and handling billing related information. A strong password policy and multi-factor authentication (MFA) should be configured for all powerful users. We shall go through the steps to create an admin user. We shall use this user credential for executing recipes for different network elements in AWS. More stringent processes and methods should be followed for creating and managing users in AWS for production purposes.