- Product Introduction
- Purchase Guide
- Getting Started
- User Guide
- Overview
- Users
- Access Key
- User Groups
- Role
- Identity Provider
- SSO Overview
- Practical Scenarios for SSO
- User-Based SSO
- Role-Based SSO
- Overview
- Overview of SAML Role-Based SSO
- Overview of OIDC Role-Based Single Sign-On
- SAML 2.0-Based Federation
- Accessing Tencent Cloud Console as SAML 2.0 Federated Users
- Creating a SAML IdP
- Creating an OIDC Identity Provider
- Managing IdPs
- Azure Active Directory Single Sign-On
- OneLogin Single Sign-On
- Okta Single Sign-On
- ADFS SSO to Tencent Cloud
- Implementing OIDC-Based Role-Based SSO
- Policies
- Permissions Boundary
- Troubleshooting
- Downloading Security Analysis Report
- CAM-Enabled Role
- Overview
- Compute
- Container
- Microservice
- Essential Storage Service
- Data Process and Analysis
- Data Migration
- Relational Database
- Enterprise Distributed DBMS
- NoSQL Database
- Database SaaS Tool
- Networking
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- Network Security
- Data Security
- Application Security
- Domains & Websites
- Big Data
- Middleware
- Interactive Video Services
- Media On-Demand
- Cloud Real-time Rendering
- Game Services
- Cloud Resource Management
- Management and Audit Tools
- Monitor and Operation
- CAM-Enabled API
- Overview
- Compute
- Edge Computing
- Container
- Distributed cloud
- Microservice
- Serverless
- Essential Storage Service
- Data Process and Analysis
- Data Migration
- Relational Database
- Enterprise Distributed DBMS
- NoSQL Database
- Database SaaS Tool
- Networking
- CDN and Acceleration
- Network Security
- Endpoint Security
- Data Security
- Business Security
- Application Security
- Domains & Websites
- Big Data
- Voice Technology
- Image Creation
- AI Platform Service
- Natural Language Processing
- Optical Character Recognition
- Middleware
- Communication
- Interactive Video Services
- Stream Services
- Media On-Demand
- Media Process Services
- Cloud Real-time Rendering
- Game Services
- Education Sevices
- Cloud Resource Management
- Management and Audit Tools
- Monitor and Operation
- More
- Practical Tutorial
- Security Practical Tutorial
- Multi-Identity Personnel Permission Management
- Authorizing Certain Operations by Tag
- Supporting Isolated Resource Access for Employees
- Enterprise Multi-Account Permissions Management
- Reviewing Employee Operation Records on Tencent Cloud
- Implementing Attribute-Based Access Control for Employee Resource Permissions Management
- During tag-based authentication, only tag key matching is supported
- Business Use Cases
- TencentDB for MySQL
- CLB
- CMQ
- COS
- Authorizing Sub-account Full Access to Specific Directory
- Authorizing Sub-account Read-only Access to Files in Specific Directory
- Authorizing Sub-account Read/Write Access to Specific File
- Authorizing Sub-account Read-only Access to COS Resources
- Authorizing a Sub-account Read/Write Access to All Files in Specified Directory Except Specified Files
- Authorizing Sub-account Read/Write Access to Files with Specified Prefix
- Authorizing Another Account Read/Write Access to Specific Files
- Authorizing Cross-Account ’s Sub-account Read/Write Access to Specified File
- Authorizing Sub-account Full Access to COS Resources under the Account
- CVM
- Authorizing Sub-account Full Access to CVMs
- Authorizing Sub-account Read-only Access to CVMs
- Authorizing Sub-account Read-only Access to CVM-related Resources
- Authorizing Sub-account Access to Perform Operations on CBSs
- Authorizing Sub-account Access to Perform Operations on Security Groups
- Authorizing Sub-account Access to Perform Operations on EIPs
- Authorizing Sub-account Access to Perform Operations on Specific CVM
- Authorizing Sub-account Access to Perform Operations on CVMs in Specific Region
- Authorizing Sub-account Full Access to CVMs Except Payment
- VPC
- Authorizing Sub-account Access to Perform Operations on Specific VPC and Resources of This VPC
- Authorizing Sub-account Access to Perform Operations on VPC Except on Routing Table
- Authorizing Sub-account Access to Perform Operations on VPN
- Authorizing Sub-account Full Access to VPCs
- Authorizing a Sub-account Full Access to VPCs Except Payment
- Authorizing Sub-account Read-only Access to VPCs
- VOD
- Others
- API Documentation
- History
- Introduction
- API Category
- User APIs
- DescribeSafeAuthFlagColl
- CreateGroup
- UpdateUser
- UpdateGroup
- RemoveUserFromGroup
- ListUsersForGroup
- ListUsers
- ListGroupsForUser
- ListGroups
- GetUser
- GetGroup
- DeleteUser
- DeleteGroup
- AddUserToGroup
- AddUser
- SetMfaFlag
- GetCustomMFATokenInfo
- ConsumeCustomMFAToken
- ListCollaborators
- ListAccessKeys
- PutUserPermissionsBoundary
- DeleteUserPermissionsBoundary
- DescribeSubAccounts
- GetSecurityLastUsed
- GetAccountSummary
- GetUserAppId
- UpdateAccessKey
- DeleteAccessKey
- CreateAccessKey
- Making API Requests
- Identity Provider APIs
- Policy APIs
- UpdatePolicy
- ListPolicies
- ListEntitiesForPolicy
- ListAttachedUserPolicies
- ListAttachedGroupPolicies
- GetPolicy
- DetachUserPolicy
- DetachGroupPolicy
- DeletePolicy
- CreatePolicy
- AttachUserPolicy
- AttachGroupPolicy
- SetDefaultPolicyVersion
- ListPolicyVersions
- GetPolicyVersion
- DeletePolicyVersion
- CreatePolicyVersion
- ListAttachedUserAllPolicies
- Role APIs
- UpdateRoleDescription
- UpdateAssumeRolePolicy
- ListAttachedRolePolicies
- GetRole
- DetachRolePolicy
- DescribeRoleList
- DeleteRole
- CreateRole
- AttachRolePolicy
- UpdateRoleConsoleLogin
- GetServiceLinkedRoleDeletionStatus
- DeleteServiceLinkedRole
- CreateServiceLinkedRole
- PutRolePermissionsBoundary
- DeleteRolePermissionsBoundary
- DescribeSafeAuthFlag
- DescribeSafeAuthFlagIntl
- UntagRole
- TagRole
- Data Types
- Error Codes
- FAQs
- Glossary
- Product Introduction
- Purchase Guide
- Getting Started
- User Guide
- Overview
- Users
- Access Key
- User Groups
- Role
- Identity Provider
- SSO Overview
- Practical Scenarios for SSO
- User-Based SSO
- Role-Based SSO
- Overview
- Overview of SAML Role-Based SSO
- Overview of OIDC Role-Based Single Sign-On
- SAML 2.0-Based Federation
- Accessing Tencent Cloud Console as SAML 2.0 Federated Users
- Creating a SAML IdP
- Creating an OIDC Identity Provider
- Managing IdPs
- Azure Active Directory Single Sign-On
- OneLogin Single Sign-On
- Okta Single Sign-On
- ADFS SSO to Tencent Cloud
- Implementing OIDC-Based Role-Based SSO
- Policies
- Permissions Boundary
- Troubleshooting
- Downloading Security Analysis Report
- CAM-Enabled Role
- Overview
- Compute
- Container
- Microservice
- Essential Storage Service
- Data Process and Analysis
- Data Migration
- Relational Database
- Enterprise Distributed DBMS
- NoSQL Database
- Database SaaS Tool
- Networking
- CDN and Acceleration
- Network Security
- Data Security
- Application Security
- Domains & Websites
- Big Data
- Middleware
- Interactive Video Services
- Media On-Demand
- Cloud Real-time Rendering
- Game Services
- Cloud Resource Management
- Management and Audit Tools
- Monitor and Operation
- CAM-Enabled API
- Overview
- Compute
- Edge Computing
- Container
- Distributed cloud
- Microservice
- Serverless
- Essential Storage Service
- Data Process and Analysis
- Data Migration
- Relational Database
- Enterprise Distributed DBMS
- NoSQL Database
- Database SaaS Tool
- Networking
- CDN and Acceleration
- Network Security
- Endpoint Security
- Data Security
- Business Security
- Application Security
- Domains & Websites
- Big Data
- Voice Technology
- Image Creation
- AI Platform Service
- Natural Language Processing
- Optical Character Recognition
- Middleware
- Communication
- Interactive Video Services
- Stream Services
- Media On-Demand
- Media Process Services
- Cloud Real-time Rendering
- Game Services
- Education Sevices
- Cloud Resource Management
- Management and Audit Tools
- Monitor and Operation
- More
- Practical Tutorial
- Security Practical Tutorial
- Multi-Identity Personnel Permission Management
- Authorizing Certain Operations by Tag
- Supporting Isolated Resource Access for Employees
- Enterprise Multi-Account Permissions Management
- Reviewing Employee Operation Records on Tencent Cloud
- Implementing Attribute-Based Access Control for Employee Resource Permissions Management
- During tag-based authentication, only tag key matching is supported
- Business Use Cases
- TencentDB for MySQL
- CLB
- CMQ
- COS
- Authorizing Sub-account Full Access to Specific Directory
- Authorizing Sub-account Read-only Access to Files in Specific Directory
- Authorizing Sub-account Read/Write Access to Specific File
- Authorizing Sub-account Read-only Access to COS Resources
- Authorizing a Sub-account Read/Write Access to All Files in Specified Directory Except Specified Files
- Authorizing Sub-account Read/Write Access to Files with Specified Prefix
- Authorizing Another Account Read/Write Access to Specific Files
- Authorizing Cross-Account ’s Sub-account Read/Write Access to Specified File
- Authorizing Sub-account Full Access to COS Resources under the Account
- CVM
- Authorizing Sub-account Full Access to CVMs
- Authorizing Sub-account Read-only Access to CVMs
- Authorizing Sub-account Read-only Access to CVM-related Resources
- Authorizing Sub-account Access to Perform Operations on CBSs
- Authorizing Sub-account Access to Perform Operations on Security Groups
- Authorizing Sub-account Access to Perform Operations on EIPs
- Authorizing Sub-account Access to Perform Operations on Specific CVM
- Authorizing Sub-account Access to Perform Operations on CVMs in Specific Region
- Authorizing Sub-account Full Access to CVMs Except Payment
- VPC
- Authorizing Sub-account Access to Perform Operations on Specific VPC and Resources of This VPC
- Authorizing Sub-account Access to Perform Operations on VPC Except on Routing Table
- Authorizing Sub-account Access to Perform Operations on VPN
- Authorizing Sub-account Full Access to VPCs
- Authorizing a Sub-account Full Access to VPCs Except Payment
- Authorizing Sub-account Read-only Access to VPCs
- VOD
- Others
- API Documentation
- History
- Introduction
- API Category
- User APIs
- DescribeSafeAuthFlagColl
- CreateGroup
- UpdateUser
- UpdateGroup
- RemoveUserFromGroup
- ListUsersForGroup
- ListUsers
- ListGroupsForUser
- ListGroups
- GetUser
- GetGroup
- DeleteUser
- DeleteGroup
- AddUserToGroup
- AddUser
- SetMfaFlag
- GetCustomMFATokenInfo
- ConsumeCustomMFAToken
- ListCollaborators
- ListAccessKeys
- PutUserPermissionsBoundary
- DeleteUserPermissionsBoundary
- DescribeSubAccounts
- GetSecurityLastUsed
- GetAccountSummary
- GetUserAppId
- UpdateAccessKey
- DeleteAccessKey
- CreateAccessKey
- Making API Requests
- Identity Provider APIs
- Policy APIs
- UpdatePolicy
- ListPolicies
- ListEntitiesForPolicy
- ListAttachedUserPolicies
- ListAttachedGroupPolicies
- GetPolicy
- DetachUserPolicy
- DetachGroupPolicy
- DeletePolicy
- CreatePolicy
- AttachUserPolicy
- AttachGroupPolicy
- SetDefaultPolicyVersion
- ListPolicyVersions
- GetPolicyVersion
- DeletePolicyVersion
- CreatePolicyVersion
- ListAttachedUserAllPolicies
- Role APIs
- UpdateRoleDescription
- UpdateAssumeRolePolicy
- ListAttachedRolePolicies
- GetRole
- DetachRolePolicy
- DescribeRoleList
- DeleteRole
- CreateRole
- AttachRolePolicy
- UpdateRoleConsoleLogin
- GetServiceLinkedRoleDeletionStatus
- DeleteServiceLinkedRole
- CreateServiceLinkedRole
- PutRolePermissionsBoundary
- DeleteRolePermissionsBoundary
- DescribeSafeAuthFlag
- DescribeSafeAuthFlagIntl
- UntagRole
- TagRole
- Data Types
- Error Codes
- FAQs
- Glossary
Role Overview
A role in CAM is a virtual user, which is different from physical users such as sub-accounts, collaborators, or message recipients. Roles can also be granted policies.
A role can be assumed by any Tencent Cloud account and is not exclusively associated with one single account. Although a root account uses persistent credentials such as a password or access keys when creating a role, the role does not have persistent credentials associated with it. When you assume a role, temporary credentials are created for you to access related resources. Specifically, you can use temporary keys to call open TencentCloud APIs in order to access your Tencent Cloud resources.
Use Cases
Those who can apply for a role are called role entities. Currently, Tencent Cloud role entities are divided into three categories: Tencent Cloud accounts, products and services that support the role feature, and identity providers. The corresponding use cases are as follows:
You want to grant users under your account temporary access to resources or grant users under another Tencent Cloud root account the access to resources under your account.
You may need to allow Tencent Cloud products and services to have access to your resources, but you don't want to embed persistent keys in them, because there may be security issues where it is difficult to rotate keys or keys are leaked after interception.
If you already have an account system for your organization, you can use the Identity Provider (IdP) feature to allow your organization members to access Tencent Cloud resources. This eliminates the need to create a CAM sub-user for each member under your Tencent Cloud account.
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