Control access to Amazon Kinesis Video Streams with WebRTC resources with AWS Identity and Access Management

By using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) with Amazon Kinesis Video Streams with WebRTC, you can control whether users in your organization can perform a task using specific Kinesis Video Streams with WebRTC API operations and whether they can use specific AWS resources.

For more information about IAM, see the following:

Policy syntax

An IAM policy is a JSON document that consists of one or more statements. Each statement is structured as follows:

{
  "Statement":[{
    "Effect":"effect",
    "Action":"action",
    "Resource":"arn",
    "Condition":{
      "condition":{
        "key":"value"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

There are various elements that make up a statement:

As you create and manage IAM policies, you might want to use the IAM Policy Generator and the IAM Policy Simulator.

API actions

In an IAM policy statement, you can specify any API action from any service that supports IAM. For Kinesis Video Streams with WebRTC, use the following prefix with the name of the API action: kinesisvideo:. For example: kinesisvideo:CreateSignalingChannel, kinesisvideo:ListSignalingChannels, and kinesisvideo:DescribeSignalingChannel.

To specify multiple actions in a single statement, separate them with commas as follows:

"Action": ["kinesisvideo:action1", "kinesisvideo:action2"]

You can also specify multiple actions using wildcards. For example, you can specify all actions whose name begins with the word "Get" as follows:

"Action": "kinesisvideo:Get*"

To specify all Kinesis Video Streams operations, use the asterisk (*) wild card as follows:

"Action": "kinesisvideo:*"

For the complete list of Kinesis Video Streams API actions, see the Kinesis Video Streams API reference.

Amazon Resource Names (ARNs)

Each IAM policy statement applies to the resources that you specify using their ARNs.

Use the following ARN resource format for Kinesis Video Streams:

arn:aws:kinesisvideo:region:account-id:channel/channel-name/code

For example:

"Resource": arn:aws:kinesisvideo::*:111122223333:channel/my-channel/0123456789012

You can get the ARN of a channel using DescribeSignalingChannel.

Grant other IAM accounts access to a Kinesis video stream

You might need to grant permission to other IAM accounts to perform operations on Kinesis Video Streams with WebRTC signaling channels. A service role is an IAM role that a service assumes to perform actions on your behalf. An IAM administrator can create, modify, and delete a service role from within IAM. For more information, see Create a role to delegate permissions to an AWS service in the IAM User Guide.

Example policies

The following example policies demonstrate how you can control user access to your Kinesis Video Streams with WebRTC channels.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "kinesisvideo:Describe*",
                "kinesisvideo:Get*",
                "kinesisvideo:List*"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

{
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "kinesisvideo:CreateSignalingChannel"          
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "kinesisvideo:*",
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "kinesisvideo:DescribeSignalingChannel",
            "Resource": "arn:aws:kinesisvideo:us-west-2:123456789012:channel/channel_name/0123456789012"
        }
    ]
}