APIs and reference

General reference documentation

• IAM REST API

  Manage roles and permissions, and manage your service accounts and keys.

• Policy Analyzer REST API

  View authentication and authorization activities in your projects.

• Policy Simulator REST API

  Simulate changes to IAM policies.

• Policy Troubleshooter REST API

  Troubleshoot access issues for Google Cloud resources.

• Security Token Service REST API

  Exchange access tokens.

• Service Account Credentials REST API

  Create short-lived, limited-privilege credentials for service accounts.

• Client libraries

  Use a client library to integrate your application with IAM.

• Resource types that accept IAM policies

  Learn which resource types accept IAM policies.

• Permissions reference

  View a complete list of IAM permissions and the roles that grant them.

• Support levels for permissions in custom roles

  Learn which IAM permissions you can use in custom roles.

• Service agents

  Get details about the service accounts that Google Cloud services use to access your resources.

• Full resource names

  Understand the format that IAM uses to identify another service's resources.

• Retry failed requests

  Find out how to retry failed requests to the IAM API.

Conditions reference documentation

• Attribute reference

  Learn about attributes that you can use to conditionally grant or deny access.

• Resource attribute value reference

  Grant access to specific Google Cloud services, resource types, and resource names.