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How you use Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) differs, depending on the work that you do in Amazon IoT SiteWise.

Service user – If you use the Amazon IoT SiteWise service to do your job, then your administrator provides you with the credentials and permissions that you need. As you use more Amazon IoT SiteWise features to do your work, you might need additional permissions. Understanding how access is managed can help you request the right permissions from your administrator. If you cannot access a feature in Amazon IoT SiteWise, see Troubleshooting Amazon IoT SiteWise identity and access.

Service administrator – If you're in charge of Amazon IoT SiteWise resources at your company, you probably have full access to Amazon IoT SiteWise. It's your job to determine which Amazon IoT SiteWise features and resources your service users should access. You must then submit requests to your IAM administrator to change the permissions of your service users. Review the information on this page to understand the basic concepts of IAM. To learn more about how your company can use IAM with Amazon IoT SiteWise, see How Amazon IoT SiteWise works with IAM.

IAM administrator – If you're an IAM administrator, you might want to learn details about how you can write policies to manage access to Amazon IoT SiteWise. To view example Amazon IoT SiteWise identity-based policies that you can use in IAM, see Amazon IoT SiteWise identity-based policy examples.