Access Control in the Amazon Web Services Cloud - Amazon Snowball Edge Developer Guide
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Access Control in the Amazon Web Services Cloud

You can have valid credentials to authenticate your requests in Amazon. However, unless you have permissions you cannot create or access Amazon resources. For example, you must have permissions to create a job to order a Snowball Edge device.

The following sections describe how to manage cloud-based permissions for Amazon Snowball Edge. We recommend that you read the overview first.