# IAM

Identity and Access Management: roles, users, policies and credentials for accessing the Exoscale API.

[Read more](https://community.exoscale.com/product/security/iam/)

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  {{< card
  link="api-key/"
  icon="exo-iam"
  title="API Key"
  subtitle="API keys are credentials for programmatic access to Exoscale APIs and services." >}}

  {{< card
  link="role/"
  icon="exo-iam"
  title="Role"
  subtitle="IAM roles lets you define logical sets of policies to grant to users and API keys." >}}

  {{< card
  link="user/"
  icon="exo-iam"
  title="User"
  subtitle="IAM users map to humans empowered with access to Exoscale resources." >}}

  {{< card
  link="organization-policy/"
  icon="exo-iam"
  title="Organization Policy"
  subtitle="The Organization Policy is an IAM policy that applies as a first layer across your entire Exoscale organization." >}}

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