Create Admin Role

Create Admin Role

  1. Access the management interface of the IAM service.

  2. In the left sidebar, select Roles, and then select Create role.

AWS IAM

  1. Click AWS account to create a role to be used in your existing account or any other AWS accounts.

AWS IAM

  1. Click Another AWS account:

    • With Account ID, enter the AWS account ID of the current account you are using. (To see your account ID, click on your account name in the upper right corner.)
    • Select Next.

  2. Type AdministratorAccess in the search bar, enter, and tick AdministratorAccess.

    Thus, you have allowed this IAM Role to have Admin access to your main account’s AWS resources.

    Select Next.

AWS IAM

  1. For Role name, enter a name for the role, for example, AdminRole.

AWS IAM

Note: The role name must be unique to your AWS account. Names are not case-sensitive. For example, the old role name ADMINUSER and creating a new role name adminuser will not work.

  1. Select Create role.

AWS IAM

  1. Complete the role creation.

AWS IAM

  1. View detailed information about the role.

AWS IAM