Identity and access management for scaling plans - Amazon Auto Scaling
Access control
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Identity and access management for scaling plans

Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) is an Amazon Web Services service that helps an administrator securely control access to Amazon resources. IAM administrators control who can be authenticated (signed in) and authorized (have permissions) to use Amazon Auto Scaling resources. IAM is an Amazon Web Services service that you can use with no additional charge.

For complete IAM documentation, see the IAM User Guide.

Access control

You can have valid credentials to authenticate your requests, but unless you have permissions you cannot create or access scaling plans. For example, you must have permissions to create scaling plans, configure predictive scaling, and so on.

The following sections provide details on how an IAM administrator can use IAM to help secure your scaling plans, by controlling who can work with scaling plans.

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