Part - 1 : Create user on Amazon AWS

This is the first part of a 3-part tutorial series on Getting started with amazon Lambda :

1. In this part, we will learn how we can create a user on our amazon aws account.
2. In the second part we will learn how we can create our first lambda function.
3. In the third part, we will code our lambda function and also we will create our node.js function to call our lambda function.

1. Amazon AWS account : You can create Amazon AWS account here or you can login to your account, if u already have one.

• Step 1 : Search and select IAM from the list of all the services provided on the landing page of your aws account as shown in the image below:
  
  
  
• Step 2 : Click on Users to start the process of creating a new user on amazon AWS as shown in the image below:
  
  
  
• Step 3 : Click on Add user as shown in the image below:
  
  
  
• Step 4 : Enter a Username for your user. In the Access Type field, enable Programmatic access as shown in the image below:
  
  
  
• Step 5 : Create a user group to provide permissions to our user.Select Add User to group and create group as shown in the image below:
  
  
  
• Step 6 : Write a Group Name and then search for the following policy in policy type field -- AWS lambda full access as shown in the image below:
  
  
  
• Step 7 : Select the group you created and proceed further as shown in the image below:
  
  
  
• Step 8 : This is review step. Check all the fields and see if they are as per your selection and if the answer is yes, proceed further as shown in the image below:
  
  
  
• Step 9 : Please note Access key id and Secret access key for future references.You can also download the keys by clicking on the Download.csv button as shown in the image below:
  
  
  

In this part of the Getting started with AWS lambda functions, we learned how we can create a user and provide full access to AWS lambda function.