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Using IAM Identity Policies to Grant Access to My Account

System-defined permissions in Identity Policy-based Authorization provided by Identity and Access Management (IAM) let you control access to My Account. With IAM, you can:

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

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

Figure 1 shows the process flow of identity policy-based authorization.

Prerequisites

Before granting permissions, learn about system-defined permissions in Identity Policy-based Authorization for My Account. To grant permissions for other services, learn about all system-defined permissions supported by IAM.

Process Flow

Figure 1 Process of granting My Account permissions using identity policy-based authorization
  1. On the IAM console, create an IAM user or create a user group.
  2. Attach a system-defined identity policy (BillingFinancePolicy as an example) to the user or user group.

    Assign the permissions defined in the system-defined identity policy BillingFinancePolicy to the user or group, or attach the system-defined identity policy to it.

  3. Log in as the IAM user and verify permissions.

    In the authorized region, perform the following operations:

    • Log in to Huawei Cloud as the IAM user, hover over the username in the upper right corner and choose Basic Information to go to My Account. Check whether the user has permission to access the My Privileges page. If yes, the BillingFinancePolicy policy is in effect.
    • Check whether the user has permission to view and modify account information in Huawei Cloud My Account. If a message appears indicating that you have insufficient permissions to perform the operation, the BillingFinancePolicy policy is in effect.

Example Custom Identity Policies

You can create custom identity policies to supplement the system-defined identity policies of My Account. For details about actions supported in custom identity policies, see Actions Supported by Identity Policy-based Authorization.

To create a custom identity policy, choose either visual editor or JSON.

  • Visual editor: Select cloud services, actions, resources, and request conditions. This does not require knowledge of policy syntax.
  • JSON: Create a JSON policy or edit an existing one.

For details, see Creating a Custom Identity Policy and Attaching It to a Principal.

The following provides examples of custom identity policies in My Account.

  • Example 1: Grant permission to update account information. 
    {
    "Version": "5.0",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "account:accountInfo:update"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
  • Example 2: Grant permission to view my privileges and prizes as well as the expenditure summary.

    A custom policy can contain the actions of one or multiple services. Example policy containing multiple actions:

    {
    "Version": "5.0",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "account:privilege:view",
                "billing:bill:view"
            ]
        }
    ]
}