Identity and Access Management in Amazon Cloud Directory

Access to Amazon Cloud Directory requires credentials that AWS can use to authenticate your requests. Those credentials must have permissions to access AWS resources. The following sections provide details on how you can use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Cloud Directory to help secure your resources by controlling who can access them:

Authentication

Learn how to access AWS using IAM identities.

Access Control

You can have valid credentials to authenticate your requests, but unless you have permissions you cannot create or access Cloud Directory resources. For example, you must have permissions to create an Amazon Cloud Directory.

The following sections describe how to manage permissions for Cloud Directory. We recommend that you read the overview first.