Audience

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

Service user – If you use the Amazon Monitron service to do your job, then your administrator provides you with the credentials and permissions that you need. As you use more Amazon Monitron 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 Monitron, see Troubleshooting Amazon Monitron Identity and Access.

Service administrator – If you're in charge of Amazon Monitron resources at your company, you probably have full access to Amazon Monitron. It's your job to determine which Amazon Monitron 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 Monitron, see How Amazon Monitron 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 Monitron. To view example Amazon Monitron identity-based policies that you can use in IAM, see Amazon Monitron Identity-Based Policy Examples.