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Assumes you forgot (or incorrectly reset) admin user, but have AWS access key/secret key ID with admin rights. You'll need to setup AWS CLI.

aws iam create-user --user-name admin2
aws iam create-login-profile --user-name admin2 --password Admin2018! --no-password-reset-required
aws iam list-groups
aws iam add-user-to-group --group-name Admins --user-name admin2

Then you can fix your original user, and delete the temp admin user you just created.

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