How the Amazon Chime SDK works with IAM

Before you use IAM to manage access to the Amazon Chime SDK, learn the IAM features available for use with the Amazon Chime SDK. To get a high-level view of how the Amazon Chime SDK and other AWS services work with IAM, see AWS services that work with IAM in the IAM User Guide.

Amazon Chime SDK identity-based policies

With IAM identity-based policies, you can specify allowed or denied actions and resources as well as the conditions under which actions are allowed or denied. The Amazon Chime SDK supports specific actions, resources, and condition keys. To learn about all of the elements that you use in a JSON policy, see IAM JSON policy elements reference in the IAM User Guide.

Actions

Administrators can use AWS JSON policies to specify who has access to what. That is, which principal can perform actions on what resources, and under what conditions.

The Action element of a JSON policy describes the actions that you can use to allow or deny access in a policy. Policy actions usually have the same name as the associated AWS API operation. There are some exceptions, such as permission-only actions that don't have a matching API operation. There are also some operations that require multiple actions in a policy. These additional actions are called dependent actions.

Include actions in a policy to grant permissions to perform the associated operation.

For more information about actions, see Actions, resources, and condition keys for Amazon Chime in the Service Authorization Reference.

Condition keys

The Amazon Chime SDK provides a set of service-specific condition keys. For more information, see Condition keys for Amazon Chime in the Service Authorization Reference.

Resources

The Amazon Chime SDK supports specifying resource ARNs in a policy. For more information, see Resource types defined by Amazon Chime

Examples

To view examples of Amazon Chime SDK identity-based policies, see Amazon Chime SDK identity-based policy examples.