# Identity and access management in IPAM
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AWS uses security credentials to identify you and to grant you access to your AWS resources. You can use features of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to allow other users, services, and applications to use your AWS resources fully or in a limited way, without sharing your security credentials.

This section describes the AWS service-linked roles that are created specifically for IPAM and the managed policies attached to the IPAM service-linked roles. For more information about AWS IAM roles and policies, see [Roles terms and concepts](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles.html#id_roles_terms-and-concepts) in the *IAM User Guide*.

For more information about identity and access management for VPC, see [Identity and access management for Amazon VPC](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/security-iam.html) in the *Amazon VPC User Guide*.

**Topics**
+ [Service-linked roles for IPAM](iam-ipam-slr.md)
+ [AWS managed policies for IPAM](iam-ipam-managed-pol.md)
+ [Example policy](iam-ipam-policy-examples.md)