Permissions

CSPs allow administrators to assign permissions to devices and groups of devices. For example, the Azure IoT service has four defined permissions: RegistryReadRegistryReadWriteServiceConnect, and DeviceConnect. These permissions are managed per IoT Hub in the Azure cloud.

The DeviceConnect permission allows devices to connect to the IoT Hub using the specified authentication technique. A device management service might be provisioned with the RegistryReadWrite policy, whereby the IoT Hub is provisioned with RegistryRead.

AWS IoT offers similar permissions (see the following link: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/iot-policies.html). For example, iot:Connect supports connection to the IoT message broker ...

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