Creating a User and Granting Permissions

This chapter describes how to use Identity and Access Management (IAM) for fine-grained permissions control for your Application Operations Management (AOM) resources. With IAM, you can:

If your account does not need individual IAM users, then you may skip over this chapter.

This section describes the procedure for granting permissions (see Figure 1).

Prerequisites

Learn about the permissions supported by AOM and choose policies or roles according to your requirements. See AOM Permissions. For the permissions of other services, see Permission Description.

Process

Figure 1 Process for granting AOM permissions
  1. Create a user group and assign permissions.

    Create a user group on the IAM console, and assign the AOM ReadOnlyAccess policy to the group.

  2. Create an IAM user.

    Create a user on the IAM console and add the user to the group created in 1.

  3. Log in and verify permissions.

    Log in to the AOM console as the created user, and verify that it only has read permissions for AOM.