verify-administrator-user.md

Verify AWS IAM Administrator User Setup

When first creating a new AWS account, you will initially create a new user. This example validate you have an accessible IAM User that has AdministratorAccess level access for the various examples in this tutorial.

# Verify Administrator User Setup
export AWS_PROFILE=administrator  
export AWS_PAGER=cat

aws sts get-caller-identity
aws ec2 describe-availability-zones --output text --query 'AvailabilityZones[0].[RegionName]'
aws iam list-attached-user-policies --user-name $(aws sts get-caller-identity --query 'Arn' --output text | cut -d'/' -f2)

Triage

These commands work provided you have:

• Setup an IAM user with AdministratorAccess. See Creating an IAM user in your AWS account

• The access credentials for this IAM user. See Configuration and credential file settings

  $ cat ~/.aws/credentials
  [administrator]
  aws_access_key_id=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  aws_secret_access_key=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  region=us-east-2
  output=json
  cli_pager=cat
  

Example Output

sts get-caller-identity

  {
      "UserId": "AIDAWA6FBRN6XP5AWG4HU",
      "Account": "999999999999",
      "Arn": "arn:aws:iam::999999999999:user/administrator"
  }

ec2 describe-availability-zones

  us-east-2

ec2 list-attached-user-policies

  {
      "AttachedPolicies": [
          {
              "PolicyName": "AdministratorAccess",
              "PolicyArn": "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AdministratorAccess"
          }
      ]
  }