Creating an IAM User and Granting VPC Permissions

This section describes how to use IAM to implement fine-grained permissions control for your VPC resources. With IAM, you can:

Create IAM users for personnel based on your enterprise's organizational structure. Each IAM user has their own identity credentials for accessing VPC resources.
Grant users only the permissions required to perform a given task based on their job responsibilities.
Entrust a cloud account or cloud service to perform efficient O&M on your VPC resources.

If your cloud account meets your permissions requirements, you can skip this section.

Figure 1 shows the process flow for granting permissions.

Learn about the permissions (see Permissions) supported by VPC and choose policies or roles according to your requirements.

To grant permissions for other services, learn about all system-defined permissions supported by IAM.

Figure 1 Process for granting VPC permissions

On the IAM console, create a user group and grant it permissions.
Create a user group on the IAM console and assign the VPCReadOnlyAccess permissions to the group.
Create an IAM user and add it to the created user group.
Create a user on the IAM console and add the user to the group created in 1.
Log in as the IAM user and verify permissions.
In the authorized region, perform the following operations:
- Choose Service List > Virtual Private Cloud. Then click Create VPC on the VPC console. If a message appears indicating that you have insufficient permissions to perform the operation, the VPCReadOnlyAccess policy is in effect.
- Choose another service from Service List. If a message appears indicating that you have insufficient permissions to access the service, the VPCReadOnlyAccess policy is in effect.