EIP Permissions

If you need to assign different permissions to employees in your enterprise to control their access to your cloud resources, you can use Identity and Access Management (IAM) for fine-grained permissions management. IAM provides identity authentication, permissions management, and access control, helping you to securely access your cloud resources. If your HUAWEI ID does not need individual IAM users, you may skip this chapter.

IAM can be used free of charge. You pay only for the resources in your account.

With IAM, you can create IAM users and assign permissions to control their access to specific resources. For example, if you want some software developers in your enterprise to use EIPs but do not want them to release EIPs or perform any other high-risk operations, you can grant permissions to use EIPs but not permission to delete them.

IAM supports role/policy-based authorization and identity policy-based authorization.

Assume that you want to grant IAM users the permissions to create VPCs in CN North-Beijing4 and OBS buckets in CN South-Guangzhou. With role/policy-based authorization, the administrator needs to create two custom policies and attach both to the IAM users. With identity policy-based authorization, the administrator only needs to create one custom policy and configure the condition key g:RequestedRegion for the policy, and then attach the policy to the principals or grant the principals the access permissions to the specified regions. Identity policy-based authorization is more flexible than role/policy-based authorization.

Policies/identity policies and actions in the two authorization models are not interoperable. You are advised to use the identity policy-based authorization model. For details about system-defined permissions, see Role/Policy-based Authorization and Identity Policy-based Authorization.

For more information, see IAM Service Overview.