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Updated on 2023-09-28 GMT+08:00

What Is IAM Identity Center?

Introduction

IAM Identity Center helps you centrally manage your workforce identities and their access to multiple Huawei Cloud accounts. You can create identities for your entire enterprise at one go and give them single sign-on (SSO) access with managed permissions. The IAM Identity Center administrator creates users, assigns passwords, and manages users by group. A single portal provides users with password-based SSO access to multiple accounts. A user who has passed the security verification in an application can access protected resources in other applications without logging in again.

Architecture

Figure 1 IAM Identity Center architecture

Access Methods

You can access the IAM Identity Center service through the management console or by calling HTTPS-based APIs.

  • Accessing IAM Identity Center through the management console

    The management console is a web-based GUI where you can easily perform various operations. Log in to the management console. Click in the upper left corner of the page and choose Management & Governance > IAM Identity Center.

  • Accessing IAM Identity Center through APIs

    Use this access method if you are required to integrate IAM Identity Center on Huawei Cloud into a third-party system for secondary development. For detailed operations, see the IAM Identity Center API Reference.