Fine grained access control and visibility for centrally managing cloud resources. Control resource permissions using a variety of options: graphically from the Google Cloud Platform™ console, programmatically via Google Cloud IAM™ methods, or using the gcloud command line interface. A full audit trail history of permissions authorization, removal, and delegation gets surfaced automatically for your admins. Google Cloud IAM™ lets you focus on business policies around your resources and makes compliance easy. Google Cloud Identity and Access Management™ (Google Cloud IAM) lets administrators authorize who can take action on specific resources, giving you full control and visibility to manage cloud resources centrally. For established enterprises with complex organizational structures, hundreds of workgroups and potentially many more projects, Google Cloud IAM™ provides a unified view into security policy across your entire organization, with built—in auditing to ease compliance processes. You will be charged only for use of other Google Cloud Platform™ services. For information on the pricing of other Google Cloud Platform™ services, see the Google Cloud Platform Pricing Calculator™.

Google Cloud IAM™ supports standard Google™ accounts. Create Google Cloud IAM™ policies granting permission to a Google Group™, a Google™ hosted domain, a service account, or specific Google Account™ holders. Centrally manage users and groups through the Google™™ Apps Admin Console. Create and manage Google Cloud IAM™ policies using the Google Cloud Platform Console™, the Google Cloud IAM™ methods, and the gcloud tool. Google Cloud IAM™ enables you to grant access to cloud resources at fine—grained levels, well beyond project level access. Google™ recognizes that an organization’s internal structure and policies can get complex fast. Projects, workgroups, and managing who has authorization to do what all change dynamically. Google Cloud IAM™ is designed with simplicity in mind: a clean, universal interface lets you manage access control across all Google Cloud Platform™ resources consistently. So you learn it once, then apply everywhere. Google Cloud IAM™ provides the right tools to manage resource permissions with minimum fuss and high automation. Map job functions within your company to groups and roles.

Cloud Identity And Access Management

With Google Cloud IAM™ you can grant more granular access to specific Google Cloud Platform™ resources and prevent unwanted access to other resources. Google Cloud IAM™ lets you adopt the security principle of least privilege, so you grant only the necessary access to your resources. To ease compliance processes for your organization, a full audit trail is made available to admins without any additional effort. Prior to Google Cloud IAM™, you could only grant Owner, Editor, or Viewer roles to users. A wide range of services and resources now surface additional Google Cloud IAM™ roles out of the box. For example, the Cloud Pub/Sub service exposes Google Publisher™ and Google Subscriber™ roles in addition to the Owner, Editor, and viewer roles. Grant roles to users at a resource level of granularity, rather than just project level. For example, you can create an IAM access control policy that grants the Subscriber role to a user for a particular Cloud Pub/Sub topic. Google Cloud IAM™ is offered at no additional charge for all Google Cloud Platform™ customers. A service account is an account that belongs to your application instead of to an individual end—user.

Google IAM Groups

You can find the email address that is associated with a Google Group™ by clicking About on the homepage of any Google Group™. For more information about Google Groups™, see the Google Groups™ homepage. Google Groups™ are a convenient way to apply an access policy to a collection of users. You can grant and change access controls for a whole group at once instead of granting or changing access controls one at a time for individual users or service accounts. You can also easily add members to and remove members from a Google Group™ instead of updating a Google Cloud IAM™ policy to add or remove users. Note that Google Groups™ don’t have login credentials, and you cannot use Google Groups™ to establish identity to make a request to access a resource. Google Gsuite Domain™—a Google GSuite™ domain represents a virtual group of all the members in an organization. Google GSuite™ customers can associate their email accounts with an Internet domain name. When you do this, each email account takes the form username@yourdomain.com. You can specify an identity by using any Internet domain name that is associated with a Google Apps™ account. Like groups, domains cannot be used to establish identity, but they enable convenient permission management.

Features And Benefits

In Google Cloud IAM™, you grant access to members. Members can be of following types; Google Account™, Google Service Account™, Google Group™, and Google Gsuite™ domain. AllAuthenticatedUsers—this is a special identifier that represents anyone who is authenticated with a Google Account™ or a Google Service™ account. AllUsers—this is a special identifier that represents anyone who is on the internet, with or without a Google™ account. After Google™ authenticates the member making a request, Google Cloud IAM™ makes an authorization decision on whether the member is allowed to perform an operation on a resource. Google Account™—a Google Account™ represents a developer, an administrator, or any other person who interacts with Google Cloud Platform™. An email address that is associated with a Google Account™, such as a gmail.com address, can be an identity. New users can sign up for a Google Account™ by going to the Google Account™ signup page. Google Group™—a Google Group™ is a named collection of Google™ accounts and service accounts. Every group has a unique email address that is associated with the group.