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Troubleshooting and Resolving AWS IAM Errors

In this hands-on lab scenario, you are a security engineer working for a new startup that's launching an online bookstore for rare and antique books. The founder, Kia, needs your help setting up her database administrators with the proper access permissions for the startup's AWS account. In order to provide access and ensure the proper security measures are in place, you will use AWS Identity & Access Management (IAM) and attach the necessary AWS-managed policy that allows full access to Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS).

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Clock icon Intermediate
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Clock icon 30m
Last updated
Clock icon Sep 01, 2025

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Review Existing Policy Permissions for DBAGroup as an Administrator

    1. Log in to the AWS Management Console using cloud_user credentials.
    2. Navigate to IAM.
    3. In IAM Resources section, click User groups: 1.
    4. Click DBAGroup.
    5. Click the Permissions tab and click StudentRDSPolicy.
    6. Click Cancel to exit.
    7. Sign out as the cloud_user by clicking your account name on the top-right navigation bar and click Sign Out.

  2. Challenge

    Access a Relational Database Instance as a DBA

    1. Click Log back in.
    2. Log in as dba-1. (NOTE: The credentials are located under the Additional Resources section)
    3. Navigate to Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS).
    4. Click Create database.
    5. Note the access denied message. We need to modify DBAGroup permissions as an administrator to grant DBA access.
    6. Sign out by clicking your account name on the top navigation bar and clicking Sign Out.

  3. Challenge

    Modify Permissions on the DBAGroup as an Administrator

    1. Click Log back in.
    2. Log in with the cloud_user credentials.
    3. Navigate to IAM.
    4. In IAM Resources section, click User groups: 1.
    5. Click DBAGroup.
    6. Click the Permissions tab.
    7. Click Add permissions to access the dropdown menu and click Attach Policies.
    8. In Other permission policies field, search for "rds".
    9. Select AmazonRDSFullAccess.
    10. Click Add permissions.
    11. Log out as the cloud_user by clicking your account name on the top-right navigation bar and clicking Sign Out.

  4. Challenge

    Verify Relational Database Access as a DBA

    1. Click Log back in.
    2. Log back in as dba-1.
    3. Navigate to Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS).
    4. Click Create database. (NOTE: The error message is gone.)
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