IAM overview

Identity and Access Management (IAM) lets you control user and group access to Spanner resources at the project, Spanner instance, and Spanner database levels. For example, you can specify that a user has full control of a specific database in a specific instance in your project, but cannot create, modify, or delete any instances in your project. Using access control with IAM lets you grant a permission to a user or group without having to modify each Spanner instance or database permission individually.

This document focuses on the IAM permissions relevant to Spanner and the IAM roles that grant those permissions. For a detailed description of IAM and its features, see the Identity and Access Management developer's guide. In particular, see its Managing IAM policies section.

Permissions

Permissions allow users to perform specific actions on Spanner resources. For example, the spanner.databases.read permission allows a user to read from a database using Spanner's read API, while spanner.databases.select allows a user to execute a SQL select statement on a database. You don't directly give users permissions; instead, you grant them predefined roles or custom roles, which have one or more permissions bundled within them.

The following tables list the IAM permissions that are associated with Spanner.

Instance configurations

The following permissions apply to Spanner instance configurations. For more information, see the instance configuration references for REST and RPC APIs.

Instance configuration permission name Description
spanner.instanceConfigs.create Create a custom instance configuration.
spanner.instanceConfigs.delete Delete a custom instance configuration.
spanner.instanceConfigs.get Get an instance configuration.
spanner.instanceConfigs.list List the set of instance configurations.
spanner.instanceConfigs.update Update a custom instance configuration.

Instance configuration operations

The following permissions apply to Spanner instance configuration operations. For more information, see the instance references for REST and RPC APIs.

Instance configuration operation permission name Description
spanner.instanceConfigOperations.list List instance configuration operations.
spanner.instanceConfigOperations.get Get a specific instance configuration operation.
spanner.instanceConfigOperations.cancel Cancel an instance configuration operation.
spanner.instanceConfigOperations.delete Delete an instance configuration operation.

Instances

The following permissions apply to Spanner instances. For more information, see the instance references for REST and RPC APIs.

Instance permission name Description
spanner.instances.create Create an instance.
spanner.instances.list List instances.
spanner.instances.get Get the configuration of a specific instance.
spanner.instances.getIamPolicy Get an instance's IAM Policy.
spanner.instances.update Update an instance.
spanner.instances.setIamPolicy Set an instance's IAM Policy.
spanner.instances.delete Delete an instance.

Instance operations

The following permissions apply to Spanner instance operations. For more information, see the instance references for REST and RPC APIs.

Instance operation permission name Description
spanner.instanceOperations.list List instance operations.
spanner.instanceOperations.get Get a specific instance operation.
spanner.instanceOperations.cancel Cancel an instance operation.
spanner.instanceOperations.delete Delete an instance operation.

Partitions

The following permissions apply to Spanner partitions. For more information, see the partition references for REST and RPC APIs.

Instance permission name Description
spanner.instancePartitions.create Create a partition.
spanner.instancePartitions.get Get the configuration of a specific partition.
spanner.instancePartitions.list List partitions.
spanner.instancePartitions.update Update a partition.
spanner.instancePartitions.delete Delete a partition.

Partition operations

The following permissions apply to Spanner partition operations. For more information, see the instance partition references for REST and RPC APIs.

Instance partition operation permission name Description
spanner.instancePartitionOperations.list List partition operations.
spanner.instancePartitionOperations.get Get a specific partition operation.
spanner.instancePartitionOperations.cancel Cancel a partition operation.
spanner.instancePartitionOperations.delete Delete a partition operation.

Databases

The following permissions apply to Spanner databases. For more information, see the database references for REST and RPC APIs.

Database permission name Description
spanner.databases.beginPartitionedDmlTransaction

Execute a Partitioned Data Manipulation Language (DML) statement. For more information about partitioned queries, see Read data in parallel.
spanner.databases.create Create a database.
spanner.databases.createBackup Create a backup from the database. Also requires spanner.backups.create to create the backup resource.
spanner.databases.list List databases.
spanner.databases.update

Update a database's metadata.
spanner.databases.updateDdl Update a database's schema.
spanner.databases.get Get a database's metadata.
spanner.databases.getDdl Get a database's schema.
spanner.databases.getIamPolicy Get a database's IAM Policy.
spanner.databases.setIamPolicy Set a database's IAM Policy.
spanner.databases.beginReadOnlyTransaction Begin a read-only transaction on a Spanner database.
spanner.databases.beginOrRollbackReadWriteTransaction Begin or roll back a read-write transaction on a Spanner database.
spanner.databases.read Read from a database using the read API.
spanner.databases.select Execute a SQL select statement on a database.
spanner.databases.write Write into a database.
spanner.databases.drop Drop a database.
spanner.databases.useRoleBasedAccess Use fine-grained access control.
spanner.databases.useDataBoost Use the compute resources of Spanner Data Boost to process partitioned queries.

Database roles

The following permissions apply to Spanner database roles. For more information, see the database references for REST and RPC APIs.

Database role permission name Description
spanner.databaseRoles.list List database roles.
spanner.databaseRoles.use Use a specified database role.

Database operations

The following permissions apply to Spanner database operations. For more information, see the database references for REST and RPC APIs.

Database operation permission name Description
spanner.databaseOperations.list List database and restore database operations.
spanner.databaseOperations.get Get a specific database operation.
spanner.databaseOperations.cancel Cancel a database operation.

Backups

The following permissions apply to Spanner backups. For more information, see the backups references for REST and RPC APIs.

Backup permission name Description
spanner.backups.create Create a backup. Also requires spanner.databases.createBackup on the source database.
spanner.backups.get Get a backup.
spanner.backups.update Update a backup.
spanner.backups.delete Delete a backup.
spanner.backups.list List backups.
spanner.backups.restoreDatabase Restore database from a backup. Also requires spanner.databases.create to create the restored database on the target instance.
spanner.backups.getIamPolicy Get a backup's IAM policy.
spanner.backups.setIamPolicy Set a backup's IAM policy.

Backup operations

The following permissions apply to Spanner backup operations. For more information, see the database references for REST and RPC APIs.

Backup operation permission name Description
spanner.backupOperations.list List backup operations.
spanner.backupOperations.get Get a specific backup operation.
spanner.backupOperations.cancel Cancel a backup operation.

Backup schedules

The following permissions apply to Spanner backup schedules. For more information, see the database references for the REST and RPC APIs.

Backup schedule permission name Description
spanner.backupSchedules.create Create a backup schedule. Also requires spanner.databases.createBackup on the source database.
spanner.backupSchedules.get Get a backup schedule.
spanner.backupSchedules.update Update a backup schedule.
spanner.backupSchedules.delete Delete a backup schedule.
spanner.backupSchedules.list List backup schedules.

Sessions

The following permissions apply to Spanner sessions. For more information, see the database references for REST and RPC APIs.

Session permission name Description
spanner.sessions.create Create a session.
spanner.sessions.get Get a session.
spanner.sessions.delete Delete a session.
spanner.sessions.list List sessions.

Predefined roles

A predefined role is a bundle of one or more permissions. For example, the predefined role roles/spanner.databaseUser contains the permissions spanner.databases.read and spanner.databases.write. There are two types of predefined roles for Spanner:

  • Person roles: Granted to users or groups, which allows them to perform actions on the resources in your project.
  • Machine roles: Granted to service accounts, which allows machines running as those service accounts to perform actions on the resources in your project.

The following table lists the access control with IAM predefined roles, including a list of the permissions associated with each role:

Role Permissions

(roles/spanner.admin)

Has complete access to all Spanner resources in a Google Cloud project. A principal with this role can:

  • Grant and revoke permissions to other principals for all Spanner resources in the project.
  • Allocate and delete chargeable Spanner resources.
  • Issue get/list/modify operations on Cloud Spanner resources.
  • Read from and write to all Cloud Spanner databases in the project.
  • Fetch project metadata.

Lowest-level resources where you can grant this role:

  • Instance
  • Database

monitoring.timeSeries.*

  • monitoring.timeSeries.create
  • monitoring.timeSeries.list

resourcemanager.projects.get

resourcemanager.projects.list

spanner.*

  • spanner.backupOperations.cancel
  • spanner.backupOperations.get
  • spanner.backupOperations.list
  • spanner.backupSchedules.create
  • spanner.backupSchedules.delete
  • spanner.backupSchedules.get
  • spanner.backupSchedules.getIamPolicy
  • spanner.backupSchedules.list
  • spanner.backupSchedules.setIamPolicy
  • spanner.backupSchedules.update
  • spanner.backups.copy
  • spanner.backups.create
  • spanner.backups.delete
  • spanner.backups.get
  • spanner.backups.getIamPolicy
  • spanner.backups.list
  • spanner.backups.restoreDatabase
  • spanner.backups.setIamPolicy
  • spanner.backups.update
  • spanner.databaseOperations.cancel
  • spanner.databaseOperations.get
  • spanner.databaseOperations.list
  • spanner.databaseRoles.list
  • spanner.databaseRoles.use
  • spanner.databases.beginOrRollbackReadWriteTransaction
  • spanner.databases.beginPartitionedDmlTransaction
  • spanner.databases.beginReadOnlyTransaction
  • spanner.databases.changequorum
  • spanner.databases.create
  • spanner.databases.createBackup
  • spanner.databases.drop
  • spanner.databases.get
  • spanner.databases.getDdl
  • spanner.databases.getIamPolicy
  • spanner.databases.list
  • spanner.databases.partitionQuery
  • spanner.databases.partitionRead
  • spanner.databases.read
  • spanner.databases.select
  • spanner.databases.setIamPolicy
  • spanner.databases.update
  • spanner.databases.updateDdl
  • spanner.databases.updateTag
  • spanner.databases.useDataBoost
  • spanner.databases.useRoleBasedAccess
  • spanner.databases.write
  • spanner.instanceConfigOperations.cancel
  • spanner.instanceConfigOperations.delete
  • spanner.instanceConfigOperations.get
  • spanner.instanceConfigOperations.list
  • spanner.instanceConfigs.create
  • spanner.instanceConfigs.delete
  • spanner.instanceConfigs.get
  • spanner.instanceConfigs.list
  • spanner.instanceConfigs.update
  • spanner.instanceOperations.cancel
  • spanner.instanceOperations.delete
  • spanner.instanceOperations.get
  • spanner.instanceOperations.list
  • spanner.instancePartitionOperations.cancel
  • spanner.instancePartitionOperations.delete
  • spanner.instancePartitionOperations.get
  • spanner.instancePartitionOperations.list
  • spanner.instancePartitions.create
  • spanner.instancePartitions.delete
  • spanner.instancePartitions.get
  • spanner.instancePartitions.list
  • spanner.instancePartitions.update
  • spanner.instances.create
  • spanner.instances.createTagBinding
  • spanner.instances.delete
  • spanner.instances.deleteTagBinding
  • spanner.instances.get
  • spanner.instances.getIamPolicy
  • spanner.instances.list
  • spanner.instances.listEffectiveTags
  • spanner.instances.listTagBindings
  • spanner.instances.setIamPolicy
  • spanner.instances.update
  • spanner.instances.updateTag
  • spanner.sessions.create
  • spanner.sessions.delete
  • spanner.sessions.get
  • spanner.sessions.list

(roles/spanner.backupAdmin)

A principal with this role can:

  • Create, view, update, and delete backups.
  • View and manage a backup's allow policy.

This role cannot restore a database from a backup.

Lowest-level resources where you can grant this role:

  • Instance
  • Database

monitoring.timeSeries.list

resourcemanager.projects.get

resourcemanager.projects.list

spanner.backupOperations.*

  • spanner.backupOperations.cancel
  • spanner.backupOperations.get
  • spanner.backupOperations.list

spanner.backupSchedules.create

spanner.backupSchedules.delete

spanner.backupSchedules.get

spanner.backupSchedules.list

spanner.backupSchedules.update

spanner.backups.copy

spanner.backups.create

spanner.backups.delete

spanner.backups.get

spanner.backups.getIamPolicy

spanner.backups.list

spanner.backups.setIamPolicy

spanner.backups.update

spanner.databases.createBackup

spanner.databases.get

spanner.databases.list

spanner.instancePartitions.get

spanner.instancePartitions.list

spanner.instances.createTagBinding

spanner.instances.deleteTagBinding

spanner.instances.get

spanner.instances.list

spanner.instances.listEffectiveTags

spanner.instances.listTagBindings

(roles/spanner.backupWriter)

This role is intended to be used by scripts that automate backup creation. A principal with this role can create backups, but cannot update or delete them.

Lowest-level resources where you can grant this role:

  • Instance
  • Database

spanner.backupOperations.get

spanner.backupOperations.list

spanner.backupSchedules.create

spanner.backupSchedules.get

spanner.backupSchedules.list

spanner.backups.copy

spanner.backups.create

spanner.backups.get

spanner.backups.list

spanner.databases.createBackup

spanner.databases.get

spanner.databases.list

spanner.instancePartitions.get

spanner.instances.get

(roles/spanner.databaseAdmin)

A principal with this role can:

  • Get/list all Spanner instances in the project.
  • Create/list/drop databases in an instance.
  • Grant/revoke access to databases in the project.
  • Read from and write to all Cloud Spanner databases in the project.

Lowest-level resources where you can grant this role:

  • Instance
  • Database

monitoring.timeSeries.*

  • monitoring.timeSeries.create
  • monitoring.timeSeries.list

resourcemanager.projects.get

resourcemanager.projects.list

spanner.databaseOperations.*

  • spanner.databaseOperations.cancel
  • spanner.databaseOperations.get
  • spanner.databaseOperations.list

spanner.databaseRoles.*

  • spanner.databaseRoles.list
  • spanner.databaseRoles.use

spanner.databases.beginOrRollbackReadWriteTransaction

spanner.databases.beginPartitionedDmlTransaction

spanner.databases.beginReadOnlyTransaction

spanner.databases.changequorum

spanner.databases.create

spanner.databases.drop

spanner.databases.get

spanner.databases.getDdl

spanner.databases.getIamPolicy

spanner.databases.list

spanner.databases.partitionQuery

spanner.databases.partitionRead

spanner.databases.read

spanner.databases.select

spanner.databases.setIamPolicy

spanner.databases.update

spanner.databases.updateDdl

spanner.databases.updateTag

spanner.databases.useDataBoost

spanner.databases.useRoleBasedAccess

spanner.databases.write

spanner.instancePartitions.get

spanner.instancePartitions.list

spanner.instances.createTagBinding

spanner.instances.deleteTagBinding

spanner.instances.get

spanner.instances.getIamPolicy

spanner.instances.list

spanner.instances.listEffectiveTags

spanner.instances.listTagBindings

spanner.sessions.*

  • spanner.sessions.create
  • spanner.sessions.delete
  • spanner.sessions.get
  • spanner.sessions.list

(roles/spanner.databaseReader)

A principal with this role can:

  • Read from the Spanner database.
  • Execute SQL queries on the database.
  • View schema for the database.

Lowest-level resources where you can grant this role:

  • Instance
  • Database

monitoring.timeSeries.create

spanner.databases.beginReadOnlyTransaction

spanner.databases.getDdl

spanner.databases.partitionQuery

spanner.databases.partitionRead

spanner.databases.read

spanner.databases.select

spanner.instancePartitions.get

spanner.instances.get

spanner.sessions.*

  • spanner.sessions.create
  • spanner.sessions.delete
  • spanner.sessions.get
  • spanner.sessions.list

(roles/spanner.databaseReaderWithDataBoost)

Includes all permissions in the spanner.databaseReader role enabling access to read and/or query a Cloud Spanner database using instance resources, as well as the permission to access the database with Data Boost, a fully managed serverless service that provides independent compute resources.

Lowest-level resources where you can grant this role:

  • Instance
  • Database

monitoring.timeSeries.create

spanner.databases.beginReadOnlyTransaction

spanner.databases.getDdl

spanner.databases.partitionQuery

spanner.databases.partitionRead

spanner.databases.read

spanner.databases.select

spanner.databases.useDataBoost

spanner.instancePartitions.get

spanner.instances.get

spanner.sessions.*

  • spanner.sessions.create
  • spanner.sessions.delete
  • spanner.sessions.get
  • spanner.sessions.list

(roles/spanner.databaseRoleUser)

In conjunction with the IAM role Cloud Spanner Fine-grained Access User, grants permissions to individual Spanner database roles. Add a condition for each desired Spanner database role that includes the resource type of `spanner.googleapis.com/DatabaseRole` and the resource name ending with `/YOUR_SPANNER_DATABASE_ROLE`.

Lowest-level resources where you can grant this role:

  • Instance
  • Database

spanner.databaseRoles.use

(roles/spanner.databaseUser)

A principal with this role can:

  • Read from and write to the Spanner database.
  • Execute SQL queries on the database, including DML and Partitioned DML.
  • View and update schema for the database.

Lowest-level resources where you can grant this role:

  • Instance
  • Database

monitoring.timeSeries.create

spanner.databaseOperations.*

  • spanner.databaseOperations.cancel
  • spanner.databaseOperations.get
  • spanner.databaseOperations.list

spanner.databases.beginOrRollbackReadWriteTransaction

spanner.databases.beginPartitionedDmlTransaction

spanner.databases.beginReadOnlyTransaction

spanner.databases.changequorum

spanner.databases.getDdl

spanner.databases.partitionQuery

spanner.databases.partitionRead

spanner.databases.read

spanner.databases.select

spanner.databases.updateDdl

spanner.databases.updateTag

spanner.databases.write

spanner.instancePartitions.get

spanner.instances.get

spanner.sessions.*

  • spanner.sessions.create
  • spanner.sessions.delete
  • spanner.sessions.get
  • spanner.sessions.list

(roles/spanner.fineGrainedAccessUser)

Grants permissions to use Spanner's fine-grained access control framework. To grant access to specific database roles, also add the `roles/spanner.databaseRoleUser` IAM role and its necessary conditions.

Lowest-level resources where you can grant this role:

  • Instance
  • Database

spanner.databaseRoles.list

spanner.databases.useRoleBasedAccess

(roles/spanner.restoreAdmin)

A principal with this role can restore databases from backups.

If you need to restore a backup to a different instance, apply this role at the project level or to both instances. This role cannot create backups.

Lowest-level resources where you can grant this role:

  • Instance
  • Database

monitoring.timeSeries.list

resourcemanager.projects.get

resourcemanager.projects.list

spanner.backups.get

spanner.backups.list

spanner.backups.restoreDatabase

spanner.databaseOperations.*

  • spanner.databaseOperations.cancel
  • spanner.databaseOperations.get
  • spanner.databaseOperations.list

spanner.databases.create

spanner.databases.get

spanner.databases.list

spanner.instancePartitions.get

spanner.instancePartitions.list

spanner.instances.createTagBinding

spanner.instances.deleteTagBinding

spanner.instances.get

spanner.instances.list

spanner.instances.listEffectiveTags

spanner.instances.listTagBindings

(roles/spanner.viewer)

A principal with this role can:

  • View all Spanner instances (but cannot modify instances).
  • View all Spanner databases (but cannot modify or read from databases).

For example, you can combine this role with the roles/spanner.databaseUser role to grant a user with access to a specific database, but only view access to other instances and databases.

This role is recommended at the Google Cloud project level for users interacting with Cloud Spanner resources in the Google Cloud console.

Lowest-level resources where you can grant this role:

  • Instance
  • Database

monitoring.timeSeries.list

resourcemanager.projects.get

resourcemanager.projects.list

spanner.databases.list

spanner.instanceConfigs.get

spanner.instanceConfigs.list

spanner.instancePartitions.get

spanner.instancePartitions.list

spanner.instances.get

spanner.instances.list

spanner.instances.listEffectiveTags

spanner.instances.listTagBindings

Basic roles

Basic roles are project-level roles that predate IAM. See Basic roles for additional details.

Although Spanner supports the following basic roles, you should use one of the predefined roles shown earlier whenever possible. Basic roles include broad permissions that apply to all of your Google Cloud resources; in contrast, Spanner's predefined roles include fine-grained permissions that apply only to Spanner.

Basic role Description
roles/viewer Can list and get the metadata of schemas and instances. Can also read and query using SQL on a database.
roles/editor Can do all that a roles/viewer can do. Can also create instances and databases and write data into a database.
roles/owner Can do all that a roles/editor can do. Can also modify access to databases and instances.

Custom roles

If the predefined roles for Spanner don't address your business requirements, you can define your own custom roles with permissions that you specify.

Before you create a custom role, you must identify the tasks that you need to perform. You can then identify the permissions that are required for each task and add these permissions to the custom role.

Custom roles for service account tasks

For most tasks, it's obvious which permissions you need to add to your custom role. For example, if you want your service account to be able to create a database, add the permission spanner.databases.create to your custom role.

However, when you're reading or writing data in a Spanner table, you need to add several different permissions to your custom role. The following table shows which permissions are required for reading and writing data.

Service account task Required permissions
Read data spanner.databases.select
spanner.sessions.create
spanner.sessions.delete
Insert, update, or delete data spanner.databases.beginOrRollbackReadWriteTransaction
spanner.databases.write
spanner.sessions.create
spanner.sessions.delete
Create a backup spanner.backups.create
spanner.databases.createBackup
Restore a database spanner.databases.create
spanner.backups.restoreDatabase

Custom roles for Google Cloud console tasks

To identify the list of permissions you need for a given task in the Google Cloud console, you determine the workflow for that task and compile the permissions for that workflow. For example, to view the data in a table, you would follow these steps in the Google Cloud console:

Step Permissions
1. Access the project resourcemanager.projects.get
2. View the list of instances spanner.instances.list
3. Select an instance spanner.instances.get
4. View the list of databases spanner.databases.list
5. Select a database and a table spanner.databases.getDdl
6. View data in a table spanner.databases.select, spanner.sessions.create, spanner.sessions.delete

In this example, you need these permissions:

  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • spanner.databases.getDdl
  • spanner.databases.list
  • spanner.databases.select
  • spanner.instances.get
  • spanner.instances.list
  • spanner.sessions.create
  • spanner.sessions.delete

The following table lists the permissions required for actions in the Google Cloud console.

Action Permissions
View the list of instances on the Instances page

resourcemanager.projects.get
spanner.instances.list
View the list on the Permissions tab of the Instance page

spanner.instances.getIamPolicy
Add principals on the Permissions tab of the Instance page

spanner.instances.setIamPolicy
Select an instance from the instance list to view the Instance Details page

spanner.instances.get
Create an instance

spanner.instanceConfigs.list
spanner.instanceOperations.get
spanner.instances.create
Delete an instance

spanner.instances.delete
Modify an instance

spanner.instanceOperations.get
spanner.instances.update
Create a partition

spanner.instancePartitions.list
spanner.instancePartitionOperations.get
spanner.instancePartitions.create
Delete a partition

spanner.instancePartitions.delete
Modify a partition

spanner.instancePartitionOperations.get
spanner.instancePartitions.update
View the graphs in the Monitor tab on the Instance details page or the Database details page

monitoring.metricDescriptors.get
monitoring.metricDescriptors.list
monitoring.timeSeries.list
spanner.instances.get
View the list of databases on the Instance details page

spanner.databases.list
View the list on the Permissions tab of the Database details page

spanner.databases.getIamPolicy
Add principals on the Permissions tab of the Database details page

spanner.databases.setIamPolicy
Select a database from the database list and view the schema on the Database details page

spanner.databases.get
spanner.databases.getDdl
Create a database

spanner.databases.create
Delete a database

spanner.databases.drop

Create a table

Update a table schema

spanner.databaseOperations.get
spanner.databaseOperations.list
spanner.databases.updateDdl

View data in the Data tab of the Database details page

Create and run a query

spanner.databases.select
spanner.sessions.create
spanner.sessions.delete
Modify data in a table

spanner.databases.beginOrRollbackReadWriteTransaction
spanner.databases.select
spanner.databases.write
spanner.sessions.create
spanner.sessions.delete
View the Backup/Restore page

spanner.backups.list
spanner.backups.get
View the list of backup operations

spanner.backupOperations.list
View the list of restore operations

spanner.databaseOperations.list
Create a backup

spanner.backups.create
spanner.databases.createBackup
spanner.databases.list1
spanner.backupOperations.list1
Restore a database from a backup

spanner.instanceConfigs.list
spanner.instances.get
spanner.backups.get
spanner.backups.restoreDatabase
spanner.instances.list
spanner.databases.create

Update a backup

spanner.backups.update
Delete a backup

spanner.backups.delete
Create a backup schedule

spanner.backupSchedules.create

spanner.databases.createBackup
Update a backup schedule

spanner.backupSchedules.update
Delete a backup schedule

spanner.backupSchedules.delete
1 Required if you are creating a backup from the Backup/Restore page at the instance level instead of the database level.

Spanner IAM policy management

You can get, set, and test IAM policies using the REST or RPC APIs on Spanner instance, database, and backup resources.

Instances

REST API RPC API
projects.instances.getIamPolicy GetIamPolicy
projects.instances.setIamPolicy SetIamPolicy
projects.instances.testIamPermissions TestIamPermissions

Databases

REST API RPC API
projects.instances.databases.getIamPolicy GetIamPolicy
projects.instances.databases.setIamPolicy SetIamPolicy
projects.instances.databases.testIamPermissions TestIamPermissions

Backups

REST API RPC API
projects.instances.backups.getIamPolicy GetIamPolicy
projects.instances.backups.setIamPolicy SetIamPolicy
projects.instances.backups.testIamPermissions TestIamPermissions

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