User

A client with an email account.

A person or application under an account that needs to make API calls to AWS products. Each user has a unique name within the AWS account, and a set of security credentials not shared with other users. These credentials are separate from the AWS account's security credentials. Each user is associated with one and only one AWS account.

Individual or (system) process authorized to access an information system.

A person, such as an administrator, who interacts with or controls end users' interactions with a biometric system. See also cooperative user, end user, indifferent user, non-cooperative user, uncooperative user.

1. A person, organization, or other entity (including a computer or computer system), that employs the services provided by a telecommunication system, or by an information processing system, for transfer of information. Note: A user functions as a source or final destination of user information, or both. Synonym subscriber. 2. [Insecurity, a] person or process authorized access to an IS (information system); [an] individual defined, registered, and bound to a public key structure by certification authority. [INFOSEC-99] 3. A person who interacts with a system [CESG]. 4. Any person who interacts with a computer system [POSIX.6]. 5. Any person who interacts directly with a computer system [TCSEC].