Permissions Management

You can use Identity and Access Management (IAM) to manage DMS for RocketMQ permissions and control access to your resources. IAM provides identity authentication, permissions management, and access control, helping you secure access to your Huawei Cloud resources.

You can create IAM users for your employees, and assign permissions to these users on a principle of least privilege (PoLP) basis to control their access to specific resource types. For example, you can create IAM users for software developers and assign specific permissions to allow them to use DMS for RocketMQ resources but prevent them from being able to delete resources or perform any high-risk operations.

If your Huawei Cloud account does not require individual IAM users for permissions management, skip this section.

IAM is free of charge. You pay only for the resources in your account. For more information about IAM, see the IAM Service Overview.

DMS for RocketMQ permissions policies are based on DMS. Therefore, when assigning permissions, select DMS permissions policies.

DMS for RocketMQ Permissions

By default, new IAM users do not have any permissions assigned. To assign permissions to these new users, add them to one or more groups, and attach permissions policies or roles to these groups.

DMS for RocketMQ is a project-level service deployed and accessed in specific physical regions. When assigning DMS for RocketMQ permissions to a user group, specify region-specific projects where the permissions will take effect. If you select All projects, the permissions will be granted for all region-specific projects. When accessing DMS for RocketMQ, the users need to switch to a region where they have been authorized to use this service.

You can grant users permissions by using roles and policies.

Roles: A type of coarse-grained authorization mechanism that provides only a limited number of service-level roles. When using roles to grant permissions, you also need to assign dependency roles. However, roles are not an ideal choice for fine-grained authorization and secure access control.
Policies: A type of fine-grained authorization mechanism that defines permissions required to perform operations on specific cloud resources under certain conditions. This mechanism allows for more flexible policy-based authorization for securer access control. For example, you can grant DMS for RocketMQ users only the permissions for managing instances.

Table 1 lists all the system-defined roles and policies supported by DMS for RocketMQ.

**Table 1** System-defined roles and policies supported by DMS for RocketMQ
Role/Policy Name	Description	Type	Dependencies
DMS FullAccess	Administrator permissions for DMS. Users granted these permissions can perform all operations on DMS.	System-defined policy	None
DMS UserAccess	Common user permissions for DMS, excluding permissions for creating, modifying, deleting, and scaling up instances.	System-defined policy	None
DMS ReadOnlyAccess	Read-only permissions for DMS. Users granted these permissions can only view DMS data.	System-defined policy	None
DMS Administrator	Administrator permissions for DMS.	System-defined role	This role depends on the Tenant Guest and VPC Administrator roles.

Table 2 lists the common operations supported by each DMS for RocketMQ system policy or role. Select the policies or roles as required.

**Table 2** Common operations supported by each system-defined policy or role of DMS for RocketMQ
Operation	DMS FullAccess	DMS UserAccess	DMS ReadOnlyAccess
Creating instances	√	×	×
Modifying instances	√	×	×
Deleting instances	√	×	×
Modifying instance specifications	√	×	×
Querying instance information	√	√	√