Concepts

Overview

• Overview

  Describes the basic Cloud IAM concepts.

Understanding roles

• Understanding Roles

  Describes Cloud IAM roles that you can grant to identities to access Cloud Platform resources.

• Understanding Custom Roles (Alpha)

  Describes Cloud IAM Custom Roles that bundle one or more of the available IAM permissions to meet your organization's needs.

Service accounts

• Service Accounts

  Explains Cloud IAM service accounts.

Best practices

• Using Resource Hierarchy for Access Control

  Best practices that you must take into consideration when you create resources during Cloud IAM deployment.

• Understanding Service Accounts

  Best practices to take into account when using Cloud IAM service accounts.

• Using IAM Securely

  Cloud IAM security best practices.

• IAM Roles for Billing-related Job Functions

  Cloud IAM roles for job functions.

Frequently Asked Questions

• Frequently Asked Questions

  Common questions about Cloud IAM and their answers.