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To sign up for an AWS account

1. Open https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup.

2. 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.

Secure your AWS account root user

1. 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.

2. 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

1. Enable IAM Identity Center.

   For instructions, see Enabling AWS IAM Identity Center in the AWS IAM Identity Center User Guide.

2. 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

• 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

1. 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.

2. 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.

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the IAM console.

2. Create a new policy. Use the following steps:

   1. In the navigation pane, choose Policies and then choose Create Policy.

   2. In the JSON tab, edit the JSON with one of the following values. Use the JSON that works best for your application.

      • For Ground Station administrative privileges, set Action to groundstation:* as follows:

        {
          "Version": "2012-10-17",
          "Statement": [
            {
              "Effect": "Allow",
              "Action": [
                "groundstation:*"
              ],
              "Resource": [
                "*"
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
        

      • For Read-only privileges, set Action to groundstation:Get*, groundstation:List*, and groundstation:Describe* as follows:

        {
          "Version": "2012-10-17",
          "Statement": [
            {
              "Effect": "Allow",
              "Action": [
                "groundstation:Get*",
                "groundstation:List*",
                "groundstation:Describe*"
              ],
              "Resource": [
                "*"
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
        

      • For additional security through multifactor authentication, set Action to groundstation:*, and Condition/Bool to aws:MultiFactorAuthPresent:true as follows:

        {
            "Version": "2012-10-17",
            "Statement": [
                {
                    "Effect": "Allow",
                    "Action": "groundstation:*",
                    "Resource": "*",
                    "Condition": {
                        "Bool": {
                            "aws:MultiFactorAuthPresent": true
                        }
                    }
                }
            ]
        }
        

3. In the IAM console, attach the policy you created to the desired user.