Setup AWS credentials for your AWS account and create new user.

AWS credentials and configuration to your AWS account.

AWS configuration file and credential file can be found at ~/.aws/config and ~/.aws/credentials.

Once that done, you can use the following to get your account information.

aws sts get-caller-identity

It will not show secret key aws_access_key_id and aws_secret_access_key which you have set. It will only show information of your account including: UserId, AccountId, Arn.

AWS users

Note that 1 account has 1 root and can have many IAM user.

Word of advice is to not NEVER use root account directly. ALWAYS create IAM users within your account. You can create user as followed

aws iam create-user --user-name <new-user-name>

Then you have to create password for the new user.

aws iam create-login-profile --user-name <new-user-name> --password <password>

If you are admin (root user) and have to create new user for other, says your co-worker. Using the below command, your coworker (or anyone) will be asked to create new password when you login to the new username for the first time.

aws iam create-login-profile --user-name <new-user-name> --password-reset-required --password <password-to-be-changed>

You can check that user is created using the following

aws iam list-users

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