Creating an IAM User for Running PhotoMesh Project Using an On-Premises Master

To allow PhotoMesh Master running on an on-premises computer to launch EC2 instances, create an IAM user and assign permissions.

See: Creating IAM Users (Console) in Amazon’s AWS documentation for more information.

1.     Open the Amazon IAM console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/.

2.     In the navigation pane, choose Users and then choose Add user.

3.     Type the user name for the new user.

4.     Select the Programmatic access check box. Then choose Next: Permissions.

5.     On the Set Permissions page, choose Attach existing policies to user directly.

6.     In the list of policies, select the PM_RUNFUSER_POLICY policy. You can use the Filter menu to filter the list of policies.

7.     Choose Next: Tags.

8.     Choose Next: Review.

9.     Review the role and then choose Create user.

10.   To view the users' access keys (access key IDs and secret access keys), choose Show next to each password and access key that you want to see. To save the access keys, choose Download .csv and then save the file to a safe location.

Note:        This is your only opportunity to view or download the secret access keys. Save the user's new access key ID and secret access key in a safe and secure place. You will not have access to the secret keys again after this step.