AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Overview of Managing Access
Overview of Managing Access Permissions to Your
AWS Storage Gateway
Every AWS resource is owned by an AWS account, and permissions to create or access a resource are
governed by permissions policies. An account administrator can attach permissions policies to IAM
identities (that is, users, groups, and roles), and some services (such as AWS Lambda) also support
attaching permissions policies to resources.
Note
An
account administrator
(or administrator user) is a user with administrator privileges. For more
information, see
IAM User Guide.
When granting permissions, you decide who is getting the permissions, the resources they get
permissions for, and the specific actions that you want to allow on those resources.
Topics
•
AWS Storage Gateway Resources and Operations (p. 296)
•
Understanding Resource Ownership (p. 297)
•
Managing Access to Resources (p. 297)
•
Specifying Policy Elements: Actions, Effects, Resources, and Principals (p. 298)
•
Specifying Conditions in a Policy (p. 299)
AWS Storage Gateway Resources and Operations
In AWS Storage Gateway, the primary resource is a
gateway
. Storage Gateway also supports the
following additional resource types: file share, volume, virtual tape, iSCSI target, and virtual tape library
(VTL) device. These are referred to as
subresources
and they don't exist unless they are associated with a
gateway.
These resources and subresources have unique Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) associated with them as
shown in the following table.
Resource
Type
ARN Format
Gateway ARN
arn:aws:storagegateway:
region
:
account-id
:gateway/
gateway-id
File Share
ARN
arn:aws:storagegateway:
region
:
account-id
:share/
share-id
Volume ARN
arn:aws:storagegateway:
region
:
account-id
:gateway/
gateway-id
/
volume/
volume-id
Tape ARN
arn:aws:storagegateway:
region
:
account-id
:tape/
tapebarcode
Target ARN
( iSCSI target)
arn:aws:storagegateway:
region
:
account-id
:gateway/
gateway-id
/
target/
iSCSItarget
VTL Device
ARN
arn:aws:storagegateway:
region
:
account-id
:gateway/
gateway-id
/
device/
vtldevice
Note
Storage Gateway resource IDs are in uppercase. When you use these resource IDs with the
Amazon EC2 API, Amazon EC2 expects resource IDs in lowercase. You must change your resource
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