Basic Policy Structure

Each policy is a JSON document. As illustrated in the following figure, a policy includes:

Each statement includes the core information about a single permission. If a policy includes multiple statements, we apply a logical OR across the statements at evaluation time. If multiple policies are applicable to a request, we apply a logical OR across the policies at evaluation time.

The information in a statement is contained within a series of elements. For information about these elements, see Element Descriptions.