Access to EC2 server for external developers

Question

New to AWS. I have read this post about external access but that was for sftp. I need to grant external developers access to our server so they can write some code that will download data from a third party site. Everything I am reading is about "granting access" refers back to the IAM, but I don't want these users to be able to launch anything, etc. Is IAM just for console access or must I also use this to grant access to server? Can I just create a login like a normal server and not put anything about them in the IAM console? If I have to go through IAM, how do I restrict their access to do anything in the console.

Answer 1

If you somehow manage this person account you can assign role for him to perform specific tasks. Please see section IAM roles . If you want just allow user to connect to you EC2 instance, you can ask user generate ssh key and upload it in aws console.