Every AWS Snowball Edge job must be authenticated. You do this by creating and managing the IAM users in your account. Using IAM, you can create and manage users and permissions in AWS.
AWS Snowball Edge users must have certain IAM-related permissions to access the AWS Snowball Edge AWS Management Console to create jobs. An IAM user that creates an import or export job must also have access to the right Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) resources, such as the Amazon S3 buckets to be used for the job, AWS KMS resources, Amazon SNS topic, and Amazon EC2-compatible AMI for edge compute jobs.
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For information about using IAM locally on your device, see Using IAM locally on a Snowball Edge.
