Access and resource management overview

Organize, analyze, and manage access to your Google Cloud resources and services.

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Identity management for Google Cloud

Explore the methods you can use to configure identities for users and workloads on Google Cloud

IAM overview

Learn about Google Cloud's Identity and Access Management system, which lets you control who can access your Google Cloud resources.

Resource hierarchy

Learn about the resource hierarchy in Google Cloud and how you can use that hierarchy to organize your resources.

Manage identity and access

Explore best practices for setting up and managing IAM on Google Cloud.open_in_new

Google Cloud setup checklist

Configure an initial foundation to support your Google Cloud workloads, including setting up your resource hierarchy and granting initial access.

Overview of planning identity and access management

Plan your general practice of IAM.open_in_new

Patterns and practices for identity and access governance

Plan how to develop your approach for identity governance and access management for applications and workloads running on Google Cloud.open_in_new

Training, blog articles, and more

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Cloud engineer learning path

Study planning, configuring, setting up, and deploying cloud solutions.open_in_new

Create and manage cloud resources

Study creating and managing Google Cloud resources.open_in_new

Access and resource management products by use case

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Access management

Define who can access resources in your organization.

Identity and Access Management (IAM) recommender

Identify excess permissions using policy insights.

Certificate Authority Service

Simplify, automate, and customize the deployment, management, and security of private certificate authorities (CA).

Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Establish fine-grained identity and access management for Google Cloud resources.

Policy Intelligence

Control resources and manage access through policies to proactively improve your security configuration.

Access Context Manager

Allow organization administrators to define fine-grained, attribute-based access control for projects and resources in Google Cloud.

Identity and access management planning

Plan your design for granting the right individuals access to the right resources for the right reasons.open_in_new

Ensure access and identity

Study fundamental features of cloud security related to access management and identity.open_in_new

Cloud Identity

Manage user identities, devices, and applications from one console.

Control and discoverability

Manage internal enterprise solutions and Google Cloud APIs.

Service Catalog

Control internal enterprise solutions and make them easily discoverable.

Service Usage

List, enable, and disable APIs and services in your Google Cloud projects, and apply quota restrictions to services.

Optimization and service health

Optimize your service usage and identify disruptive events.

Personalized Service Health

Gain visibility into disruptive events impacting Google Cloud products.

Recommender

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Resource management

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