Amazon Identity and Access Management in Amazon IoT Analytics
Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) is an Amazon 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 IoT Analytics resources. IAM is an Amazon service that you can use with no additional charge.
Audience
How you use Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) differs, depending on the work that you do in Amazon IoT Analytics.
Service user – If you use the Amazon IoT Analytics service to do your job, then your administrator provides you with the credentials and permissions that you need. As you use more Amazon IoT Analytics 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 Analytics, see Troubleshooting Amazon IoT Analytics identity and access.
Service administrator – If you're in charge of Amazon IoT Analytics resources at your company, you probably have full access to Amazon IoT Analytics. It's your job to determine which Amazon IoT Analytics 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 Analytics, see How Amazon IoT Analytics 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 Analytics. To view example Amazon IoT Analytics identity-based policies that you can use in IAM, see Amazon IoT Analytics identity-based policy examples.