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Manage user permissions for Amazon GameLift FleetIQ

Create additional users or extend Amazon GameLift FleetIQ access permissions to existing users as needed. Users who work with Amazon GameLift FleetIQ game server groups and the related Amazon EC2 and Auto Scaling services must have permissions to access these services.

As a best practice ( Security best practices in IAM), apply least-privilege permissions for all users. You can set permissions for individual users or user groups and limit user access by service, action, or resource.

Use following instructions to set user permissions based on how you manage the users in your Amazon account. If you use IAM users, as a best practice always attach permissions to roles or user groups, not individual users.

To provide access, add permissions to your users, groups, or roles:

Amazon GameLift FleetIQ_policy

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": 
  [    
    {
      "Action": 
      [
        "iam:PassRole"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": 
      {
        "StringEquals": 
        {
          "iam:PassedToService": "gamelift.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },    
    {
      "Action": 
      [
        "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "arn:*:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/autoscaling.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForAutoScaling"
    },    
    {
      "Action": 
      [
        "autoscaling:CreateAutoScalingGroup",
        "autoscaling:CreateOrUpdateTags",
        "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups",
        "autoscaling:ExitStandby",
        "autoscaling:PutLifecycleHook",
        "autoscaling:PutScalingPolicy",
        "autoscaling:ResumeProcesses",
        "autoscaling:SetInstanceProtection",
        "autoscaling:UpdateAutoScalingGroup",
        "autoscaling:DeleteAutoScalingGroup"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "*"
    },    
    {
      "Action": 
      [
        "ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:RunInstances",
        "ec2:CreateTags"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "*"
    },    
    {
      "Action": 
      [
        "events:PutRule",
        "events:PutTargets"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Additional permissions for Amazon CloudFormation

If you use Amazon CloudFormationto manage your game hosting resources, add the Amazon CloudFormation permissions to the policy syntax.

    {
      "Action": [
        "autoscaling:DescribeLifecycleHooks",
        "autoscaling:DescribeNotificationConfigurations",
        "ec2:DescribeLaunchTemplateVersions"
      ]
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "*"
    }

Set up programmatic access for users

Users need programmatic access if they want to interact with Amazon outside of the Amazon Web Services Management Console. The Amazon APIs and the Amazon Command Line Interface require access keys. Whenever possible, create temporary credentials that consist of an access key ID, a secret access key, and a security token that indicates when the credentials expire.

To grant users programmatic access, choose one of the following options.

If you use access keys, see Best practices for managing Amazon access keys.