# Identity and access management (IAM) for AWS Outposts
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AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is an AWS service that helps an administrator securely control access to AWS resources. IAM administrators control who can be authenticated (signed in) and authorized (have permissions) to use AWS Outposts resources. You can use IAM for no additional charge.

**Topics**
+ [How AWS Outposts works with IAM](security_iam_service-with-iam.md)
+ [Policy examples](security_iam_id-based-policy-examples.md)
+ [Service-linked roles](using-service-linked-roles.md)
+ [AWS managed policies](security-iam-awsmanpol.md)