You now create IAM Role which is used by the Amazon Forecast to access training data in Amazon S3.

1. Login to your AWS account and go to IAM Management Console. Click on the Roles menu in the left side and then click on the Create role button.

   

2. On the next screen, select Forecast as the AWS Service. Click on the Next: Permission button.

   

3. On the next screen, click on the Next: Tags button.

4. Click on the Next: Review button on the next screen.

5. On the next screen, enter the Role name as dojoforecastrole and click on the Create role button.

   

6. The role is created in no time. Make note of the Role ARN as you need it later when configuring Amazon Forecast.

   

7. The next step is to create dataset group in Amazon Forecast and import the training data.