How to manage IAM user groups?

SDB Explorer has been made as an industry leading graphical user interface (GUI) to explore Amazon SimpleDB service thoroughly and now SDB Explorer is facilitating its User to interact with  IAM service with an attractive user interface.
SDB Explorer supports to Create Group, Update Group and Delete Group of Users  in order to manipulate the Users and their corresponding access on the SDB explorer resources.

Create Group : You can organize multiple Users and manage their permission or access by creating Group in your account, where as the User is an unique identity to be used to interact with Amazon SimpleDB.

Follow these steps  to create a group : Run the SDB Explorer and get authenticated with your AWS credentials. Click on the IAM button at SDB Explorer toolbar. It will open the IAM panel. Now select the nick-name (name for the save credentials of your account in SDB Explorer) and clicked on the Go button. Click on Create Group button, It will open a new panel having title as " Create Group ". Supply name of Group in the name field. Supply an alphanumeric string  in the path field(optional) which will start and end by "/" and no white spaces is accepted in the path field. When you have supplied all the information to create Group then click on OK button. After creating Group, You will have to click on " Refresh " button to see that Group in tree structure at the left side panel at SDB Explorer user interface.

Add/Remove User from a group : You can add users to your created Group in order to manage these Users and their permissions by just managing the Group.

Follow these steps  to Add/Remove User from a Group :

1. Right click on any Group listed in the tree.
2. Select first option " Add/Remove User ".
3. A new Panel having title " Add/Remove User " will be opened.This panel contains the list of all the User with in your account.
4. Those users which are already added in that group will be selected in the list of users at the " Add/Remove User " panel.
5. You can select or remove users from the list to add or remove user in that group.

Update Group : You can also Update (Rename) the existing Group, thus it will ease to manage all the Users within the Group.

Follow these steps  to update group :

1. Right click on the Group,which you want to Update(rename), listed in the tree.
2. Select the Update Group option from the Pop-up.
3. Now update the Group by renaming the group name and altering the path specified for that group and click on Ok Button.

Delete Group : You can also delete a group from your account. You must have deleted all the associated policies with the group first.

Follow these steps  to delete a group :

1. Right click on the Group listed in the tree,which you want to delete.
2. Select Delete Group option from the Pop-up.
3. After deleting the selected Group, You have to click on " Refresh " button to remove that Group from tree structure at the left side panel at SDB Explorer UI.

Note :  You need to add policy to assign permissions to the group. Click here to know  more on how to add, update and delete policy to the group.

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