Creating Access Policy

WARNING

THIS ACCESS POLICY WILL GRANT THE USER PERMISSION TO EVERYTHING RELATED TO GAMELIFT AND THIS SHOULD NOT BE USED IN A LIVE PROJECT. USE THIS ONLY FOR TESTING PURPOSES AND DO NOT SHIP YOUR GAME WITH THIS POLICY SETUP.

IT'S RECOMMENDED TO USE A PLUGIN SUCH AS STS WHICH CAN GRANT YOUR USER TEMPORARY PERMISSIONS DEPENDING ON WHAT YOUR PROJECT NEEDS AND THIS WAY YOU WILL NOT HAVE TO SHIP YOUR GAME WITH HARD CODED PERMISSIONS.

eelDev DOES NOT TAKE RESPONSITILIBTY IF YOU SHIP YOUR GAME WITH FULL ACCESS CREDENTIALS.

Getting Started

• Go to https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/home and login to your AWS account
• Click on the Policies button when you are logged into IAM

Create Policy

Select “JSON” Type

tip

COPY-PASTE THIS CODEBLOCK INTO THE TEXT EDITOR

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "gamelift:*",
            "Resource": "*"
        }
        ]
}

The Result

• The result will look something like this, click on Review policy when done.

Policy Name

• Give the Policy a name and click on Create policy when done.

Verify

• Verify that the policy has been created