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David Darke edited this page Aug 19, 2018 · 1 revision

First visit the AWS IAM user console

Click 'Add User'.

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Add an appropriate username and grant "Programatic Access" to the new user.

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Now attach an existing permissions policy to the user.

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Select 'AmazonS3FullAccess' and you are ready to create the user. You can refine these access details as you wish (on a per user basis).

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Last step is review stage, then you are ready to create the user.

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User created! 😎

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You now have the two access keys required for Backups 🍾

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