Managing authorizations to grant access between services

Authorizations

In a service to service (S2S) authorization:

• The source service is the service that is granted access to the target service.

• The roles that you select define the level of access for the source service.

• The target service is the service that you are granting permission to be accessed by the source service based on the roles that you assign.

• A source service can be in the same account where the authorization is created or in another account.

• The target service is always in the account where the authorization is created.

  You can view whether the source service is located in the current account or another account by viewing the Source account column for the specific authorization on the Authorizations page in the IBM Cloud® console.

The following table lists the different S2S authorizations that you might need when you use the IBM Cloud Logs service:

For more information, see Using authorizations to grant access between services.

Permissions to manage authorizations

You must have access to the target service to manage authorization between services.

The autorization that you define for the IBM Cloud Logs service requires that you have Administrator role for the target service.

The following table outlines the permissions that are needed on the target service to be able to define an authorization:

Actions on the target service that are required to manage authorizations

Action	Administrator	Operator	Editor	Viewer
View all authorizations that are configured in the account
Create authorizations
Delete authorizations

Users can only see authorizations that they configure in the account.

Creating an authorization

Choose one of the following options to create a S2S authorization:

• Authorize access to read and write data into a bucket.
• Authorize sending logs to a tenant.
• Authorize working with the IBM Cloud Event Notifications service.
• Authorize working with the IBM® Event Streams for IBM Cloud® service.

Removing an authorization

Choose one of the following options to remove a S2S authorization:

• Remove a S2S authorization through the UI
• Remove a S2S authorization by using the CLI
• Remove a S2S authorization by using the API
• Remove a S2S authorization by using terraform