Permissions Management

If you need to assign different permissions to employees in your enterprise to access your Direct Connect resources, Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a good choice for fine-grained permissions management. IAM provides identity authentication, permissions management, and access control, helping you secure access to your resources.

With IAM, you can use your account to create IAM users, and assign permissions to the users to control their access to specific resources. For example, some software developers in your enterprise need to use Direct Connect but should not be allowed to delete other Direct Connect resources or perform any other high-risk operations. In this scenario, you can create IAM users for the software developers and grant them only the required permissions.

Skip this part if your account does not require individual IAM users for permissions management.

IAM is free. You pay only for the resources in your account.

For more information, see IAM Service Overview.

Direct Connect 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.

Direct Connect is a project-level service deployed and accessed in specific physical regions. To assign permissions to a user group, specify the scope as region-specific projects and select projects for the permissions to take effect. If All projects is selected, the permissions will take effect for the user group in all region-specific projects. When accessing Direct Connect, the users need to switch to a region where they have been authorized to use this service.

Table 1 lists all system-defined roles supported by Direct Connect.

**Table 1** Direct Connect roles
Role Name	Description	Type	Dependency
Direct Connect Administrator	Has all permissions for Direct Connect resources. For permissions of this role to take effect, users must also have the Tenant Guest and VPC Administrator permissions.	System-defined role	Tenant Guest and VPC Administrator VPC Administrator: project-level policy, which must be assigned in the same project as the Direct Connect Administrator policy Tenant Guest: project-level policy, which must be assigned in the same project as the Direct Connect Administrator

Table 2 lists common operations supported by each system-defined role or policy of Direct Connect.

**Table 2** Common operations and required system-defined permissions
Operation	Direct Connect Administrator
Creating a connection	√
Viewing a connection	√
Modifying a connection	√
Deleting a connection	√
Creating a virtual gateway	√
Viewing a virtual gateway	√
Modifying a virtual gateway	√
Deleting a virtual gateway	√
Creating a virtual interface	√
Viewing a virtual interface	√
Modifying a virtual interface	√
Deleting a virtual interface	√
Creating an operations connection	√
Viewing an operations connection	√
Modifying an operations connection	√
Deleting an operations connection	√
Creating a hosted connection	√
Viewing a hosted connection	√
Modifying a hosted connection	√
Deleting a hosted connection	√