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Define an AWS user

Define an AWS user

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Define an AWS user

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- [Instructor] When the deployment script runs, it'll need permission to modify the files in your S3 bucket, and modify your CloudFront distribution. You can define these permissions by creating an AWS user account. This user account will be separate from the account you use to log in and it'll only be used during the deployment process. I'll start at the AWS console at console.aws.amazon.com, and then go to services and search for IAM. From here I need to go to users and then create a new user. The user name doesn't matter too much, I'll do travis_www.awesomestaticsites.com. It is important to pick programmatic access. Then I'll go next. And define the permissions I need for this user account. I'll choose to attach an existing policy directly and then I'll create a new policy from scratch. In the policy generator, I need to choose the services that this account will be able to access. First I need it to access S3. So I'll search for S3. And now we need to pick the actions that this…

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