Create an IAM permissions policy - Amazon Kinesis Video Streams

Create an IAM permissions policy

Follow these procedures to create an IAM policy. This permissions policy allows selective access control (a subset of supported operations) for an AWS resource. In this case, the AWS resources are the video streams that you want the Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Edge Agent to stream to. The resources also include the AWS Secrets Manager secrets that the Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Edge Agent can retrieve. For more information, see IAM policies.

Create a policy by using the JSON policy editor

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the IAM console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/.

  2. In the left navigation pane, choose Policies.

    If this is your first time choosing Policies, the Welcome to Managed Policies page appears. Choose Get Started.

  3. At the top of the page, choose Create policy.

  4. In the Policy editor section, choose the JSON option.

  5. Enter the following JSON policy document:

    {
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "cloudwatch:PutMetricData",
                "kinesisvideo:ListStreams",
                "iot:Connect",
                "iot:Publish",
                "iot:Subscribe",
                "iot:Receive"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "*"
            ] 
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "kinesisvideo:DescribeStream",
                "kinesisvideo:PutMedia",
                "kinesisvideo:TagStream",
                "kinesisvideo:GetDataEndpoint"
            ],
             "Resource": [ 
                "arn:aws:kinesisvideo:*:*:stream/streamName1/*",
                "arn:aws:kinesisvideo:*:*:stream/streamName2/*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "secretsmanager:GetSecretValue",
            "Resource": [
                 "arn:aws:secretsmanager:*:*:secret:*",
                 "arn:aws:secretsmanager:*:*:secret:*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
    Note

    Replace arn:aws:kinesisvideo:*:*:stream/streamName1/* and arn:aws:kinesisvideo:*:*:stream/streamName2/* with the ARNs for the video streams, and replace arn:aws:secretsmanager:*:*:secret:* with the ARNs that contain the MediaURI secrets that you created in Create resources for your IP camera RTSP URLs. Use the ARNs for the secrets that you want the Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Edge Agent to access.

  6. Choose Next.

    Note

    You can switch between the Visual and JSON editor options anytime. However, if you make changes or choose Next in the Visual editor, IAM might restructure your policy to optimize it for the visual editor. For more information, see Policy restructuring in the IAM User Guide.

  7. On the Review and create page, enter a Policy name and an optional Description for the policy that you are creating. Review Permissions defined in this policy to see the permissions that are granted by your policy.

  8. Choose Create policy to save your new policy.