Complete the tasks in this section to get set up for working with Amazon EBS resources.
Tasks
Sign up for an AWS account
If you do not have an AWS account, complete the following steps to create one.
To sign up for an AWS account
Open https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup
. Follow the online instructions.
Part of the sign-up procedure involves receiving a phone call and entering a verification code on the phone keypad.
When you sign up for an AWS account, an AWS account root user is created. The root user has access to all AWS services and resources in the account. As a security best practice, assign administrative access to a user, and use only the root user to perform tasks that require root user access.
AWS sends you a confirmation email after the sign-up process is
complete. At any time, you can view your current account activity and manage your account by
going to https://aws.amazon.com/
Create a user with administrative access
After you sign up for an AWS account, secure your AWS account root user, enable AWS IAM Identity Center, and create an administrative user so that you don't use the root user for everyday tasks.
Secure your AWS account root user
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Sign in to the AWS Management Console
as the account owner by choosing Root user and entering your AWS account email address. On the next page, enter your password. For help signing in by using root user, see Signing in as the root user in the AWS Sign-In User Guide.
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Turn on multi-factor authentication (MFA) for your root user.
For instructions, see Enable a virtual MFA device for your AWS account root user (console) in the IAM User Guide.
Create a user with administrative access
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Enable IAM Identity Center.
For instructions, see Enabling AWS IAM Identity Center in the AWS IAM Identity Center User Guide.
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In IAM Identity Center, grant administrative access to a user.
For a tutorial about using the IAM Identity Center directory as your identity source, see Configure user access with the default IAM Identity Center directory in the AWS IAM Identity Center User Guide.
Sign in as the user with administrative access
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To sign in with your IAM Identity Center user, use the sign-in URL that was sent to your email address when you created the IAM Identity Center user.
For help signing in using an IAM Identity Center user, see Signing in to the AWS access portal in the AWS Sign-In User Guide.
Assign access to additional users
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In IAM Identity Center, create a permission set that follows the best practice of applying least-privilege permissions.
For instructions, see Create a permission set in the AWS IAM Identity Center User Guide.
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Assign users to a group, and then assign single sign-on access to the group.
For instructions, see Add groups in the AWS IAM Identity Center User Guide.
(Optional) Create and use a customer managed key for
Amazon EBS encryption
Amazon EBS encryption is an encryption solution that uses AWS KMS cryptographic keys to encrypt your
Amazon EBS volumes and Amazon EBS snapshots. Amazon EBS automatically creates a unique AWS managed KMS key
for Amazon EBS encryption in each Region. This KMS key has the alias aws/ebs. You can't
rotate the default KMS key or manage its permissions. For more flexibility and control over
the KMS key used for Amazon EBS encryption, you might consider creating and using a customer managed key.
To create and use a customer managed key for Amazon EBS encryption
(Optional) Enable block public access for Amazon EBS
snapshots
To prevent public sharing of your snapshots, you can enable block public access for snapshots. After you enable block public access for snapshots in a Region, any attempt to publicly share snapshots in that Region is automatically blocked. This can help you to improve the security of your snapshots and to protect your snapshot data from unauthorized or unintended access.
For more information, see Block public access for Amazon EBS snapshots.
To enable block public access for snapshots
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Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/
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In the navigation pane, choose EC2 Dashboard, and then in Account attributes (on the right-hand side), choose Data protection and security.
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In the Block public access for EBS snapshots section, choose Manage.
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Select Block public access and then choose one of the following options:
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Block all public access — To block all public sharing of your snapshots. Users in the account can't request new public sharing. Additionally, snapshots that were already publicly shared are treated as private and are no longer publicly available.
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Block new public sharing — To block only new public sharing of your snapshots. Users in the account can't request new public sharing. However, snapshots that were already publicly shared, remain publicly available.
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Choose Update.
