I am just starting out with AWS. I have a root user and an IAM user. I’m trying to create an access key for my IAM user, but I can’t find the security credentials tab as listed here.
As you see in the second screenshot, the Security Credentials tab is missing. I can access the security credentials for the root user by clicking on the username in the upper right hand corner, but the same method does not work when I log in to my IAM user account. Any ideas on how to get this to work? Thanks!
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There used to be a service called AWS Single Sign-On (SSO). This has recently been renamed as IAM Identity Center.
This is different to Identity and Access Management (IAM). (Link)
Therefore, you are using the wrong management console.
It’s not your fault… it’s due to AWS giving different services the same name.
As previously stated, IAM Identity Center and IAM are different services for different use-cases.
When using AWS Organizations with multiple accounts, you could use IAM Identity Center (previously AWS Single Sign-On) to manage your users in a centralized way. Users have SSO access to your accounts and can create temporary programmatic keys (access key and secret key).
When using single account you use IAM, which allows you to create users that can have programmatic keys, console access, Git credentials, SSH keys, and certificates.