IAM in AWS

What is IAM in AWS?

How to create a IAM Role in AWS?

In this example we will create a role giving the permision to EKS Service

To create your Amazon EKS service role in the IAM console

1. Open the IAM console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/.
2. Choose Roles, then Create role.
3. Choose EKS from the list of services, then Allows Amazon EKS to manage your clusters on your behalf for your use case, then Next: Permissions.
4. Choose Next: Tags.
5. (Optional) Add metadata to the role by attaching tags as key–value pairs. For more information about using tags in IAM, see Tagging IAM Entities in the IAM User Guide.
6. Choose Next: Review.
7. For Role name, enter a unique name for your role, such as eksServiceRole, then choose Create role.

Done creating the IAM role on AWS.

Reference

[Creating a Role to Delegate Permissions to an IAM User - AWS Identity and Access Management
Create an IAM role that determines the permissions that users have when they access resources that belong to the same…docs.aws.amazon.com](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_create_for-user.html#roles-creatingrole-user-console "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_create_for-user.html#roles-creatingrole-user-console")

[Getting Started with Amazon EKS - Amazon EKS
Getting started with Amazon EKS.docs.aws.amazon.com](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/getting-started.html#role-create "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/getting-started.html#role-create")