How Infrastructure Performance works with IAM

The following sections describe how Infrastructure Performance works with IAM.

Infrastructure Performance identity-based policies

With IAM identity-based policies, you can specify allowed or denied actions and resources as well as the conditions under which actions are allowed or denied. Infrastructure Performance supports specific actions and resources. There are no Infrastructure Performance service-specific condition keys that can be used in the Condition element of policy statements. To learn about all of the elements that you use in a JSON policy, see IAM JSON policy elements reference in the IAM User Guide.

Actions

Administrators can use AWS JSON policies to specify who has access to what. That is, which principal can perform actions on what resources, and under what conditions.

The Action element of a JSON policy describes the actions that you can use to allow or deny access in a policy. Include actions in a policy to grant permissions to perform the associated operation.

Infrastructure Performance shares its API namespace with Amazon EC2. Policy actions in Infrastructure Performance use the following prefix before the action: ec2:. For example, to grant someone permission to create a path with the GetAwsNetworkPerformanceData API operation, you include the ec2:GetAwsNetworkPerformanceData action in their policy. Policy statements must include either an Action or NotAction element.

To specify multiple actions in a single statement, separate them with commas as shown in the following example.

"Action": [
      "ec2:action1",
      "ec2:action2"
]

You can specify multiple actions using wildcards (*). For example, to specify all actions that begin with the word Describe, include the following action.

"Action": "ec2:Describe*"

The following actions are supported by Infrastructure Performance:

Resources

Infrastructure Performance does not support resource-level permissions.

For actions that don't support resource-level permissions, such as listing operations, use a wildcard (*) to indicate that the statement applies to all resources.

"Resource": "*"

Condition keys

The Condition element (or Condition block) lets you specify conditions in which a statement is in effect. For example, you might want a policy to be applied only after a specific date. To express conditions, use predefined condition keys.

Infrastructure Performance does not provide any service-specific condition keys, but it does support using some global condition keys. To see all AWS global condition keys, see AWS global condition context keys in the IAM User Guide.

All Amazon EC2 actions support the aws:RequestedRegion and ec2:Region condition keys. For more information, see Example: Restricting Access to a Specific Region.

The Condition element is optional.

Infrastructure Performance IAM roles

An IAM role is an entity within your AWS account that has specific permissions.

Using temporary credentials with Infrastructure Performance

You can use temporary credentials to sign in with federation, to assume an IAM role, or to assume a cross-account role. You obtain temporary security credentials by calling AWS STS API operations such as AssumeRole or GetFederationToken.

Infrastructure Performance supports using temporary credentials.

Service-linked roles

Infrastructure Performance has no service-linked roles.

Service roles

Infrastructure Performance has no service roles.