Adding an admin to your AWS account


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Purpose and Audience

This guide provides instructions on how to add an admin to your UW AWS account through UW groups. The intended audience is for staff who have already completed the UW Cloud Intake Form and the Cloud Computing Service Catalog

Adding an admin to your AWS account

Step 1: Go to UW groups

Screenshot showing to select My groups in the top left

Step 2: Find your uw_aws_prd_memberID#_admins group and select it

Screenshot showing the uw_aws_prd_memberID_admins group

Step 3: Select edit 

Screenshot Showing where edit is on the top left of the groups page

Step 4: Find the administrators box

Screenshot showing where the administrators box is

Step 5: Enter the new admins UW NetID

Screenshot sowing where to enter the new UW NetID

Step 6: Scroll down and select "Update Group"

Screenshot showing the update group at the bottom of the page

This wont give the new admin access right away. Wait 1-2 hours for the access to sync to AWS before attempting to access the new admin privileges.

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