Roles and permissions

To give users access to projects and services in your organizations, you grant them permissions and roles:

• Permissions: Actions that a principal can perform on a resource or group of resources.
• Roles: Sets of permissions that you can assign to a principal.

Principals are organization users, application users, and groups.

You can grant access to principals at the organization, organizational unit, and project level. To give users access to a specific service, create service users.

Roles and permissions are cumulative. This means that a user's effective access is the combination of all roles and permissions granted to them at every level. This includes roles and permissions granted directly to the user and those granted to the groups they are a member of.

For example, if you grant a user the project:services:write permission at the organization level, they have write access to all services in all projects in the organization. If you also assign the user the read_only role on a specific project, they still have write access to the services in that project. The less permissive role does not negate the more permissive permission.

Organization roles and permissions

Roles and permissions at the organization level apply to the organization and all units, projects, and services within it.

Organization roles

Console name	API name	Allowed actions
Organization member	None	This is the default role for all organization users. You cannot grant this role to users. All non-managed organization users can: Edit their profiles. Create organizations. Leave organizations. Add allowed authentication methods. Generate and revoke personal tokens, if allowed by the authentication policy. Enable and disable feature previews. Managed users have more restrictions.
Super admin	None	Completely unrestricted access to all organization resources and settings, including: all units and projects, billing information, the authentication policy, other super admin, organization users, application users, groups, domains, and identity providers. Rename the organization. Delete the organization.
Admin	role:organization:admin	Full access to the organization. View and change billing information. Change the authentication policy. Create and delete organizational units and projects. Move projects within an organization and to other organizations. Invite, deactivate, and remove organization users. Create, edit, and delete groups. Create and delete application users and their tokens. Add and remove domains. Add, enable, disable, and remove identity providers. Cannot delete an organization or manage its super admin. Users who are granted this role on the unit level can: Create and manage projects within the unit. Grant users and groups permission to the unit.

Organization permissions

Console name	API name	Allowed actions
Manage application users	organization:app_users:write	Create, edit, and delete application users. View all application users. Generate tokens for application users that are not super admin and have not been granted any permissions. Revoke application tokens. List all application tokens.
View organization event logs	organization:event_logs:read	View the event logs for the organization and its organizational units. This permission is in development and not fully implemented in the Console.
View billing	organization:billing:read	View all billing groups, billing addresses, and payment methods. View and download invoices.
Manage billing	organization:billing:write	Create, edit, and delete billing groups. Add, edit, and delete payment methods. Add, edit, and delete addresses. View and download invoices.
Manage domains	organization:domains:write	Add, edit, and remove domains. View all organization domains.
Manage groups	organization:groups:write	Create and delete groups. Rename groups and update group descriptions. Add organization and application users to groups that have not been granted any permissions. Remove organization and application users from groups.
View organization networking	organization:networking:read	View all organization VPCs.
Manage organization networking	organization:networking:write	Add, edit, and remove organization VPCs. Create and manage VPC peering connections.
Manage projects	organization:projects:write	Create and delete projects. Assign projects to billing groups. Add and remove project tags. Cannot otherwise access or move the project or its services.
View carbon footprint	organization:sustainability:read	View the emissions data for the organization.
Manage organization users	organization:users:write	Invite new users to the organization. View all invited users. Remove user invites. Deactivate, edit and delete managed users, including organization admin. Remove non-managed users from the organization, including organization admin. Reset passwords for managed users. View all authentication methods for an organization user. Revoke tokens for managed users. View all tokens generated by managed users.

Project roles and permissions

You can grant the following roles and permissions to principals. Roles and permissions granted at the project level apply to the project and all services within it. Project roles and permissions granted at the unit level apply to all projects and services within the unit.

These permissions apply to the project API endpoint /v1/organization/{organization_id}/projects.

Project roles

Console name	API name	Permissions
Admin	admin	Full access to the project except billing settings. Full access to all of the services in the project. This role will be replaced by the role:project:admin role.
Developer	developer	View project event log. View project tags. View all services in the project. View project permissions. View service users. View project VPCs. Create databases. View service connection information. View service logs. View integration endpoints. Get the project's software bill of materials download link. Create and change service database users. View static IP addresses. Remove Aiven for OpenSearch® indexes. Create and change Aiven for Apache Kafka® topics. Create and change Aiven for PostgreSQL® connection pools.
Operator	operator	Add, edit, and delete project tags. View project tags. View project permissions. Create, edit, and delete services and their configuration. Add and remove dynamic disk sizing and tiered storage. Power on and off services. Create a fork of a service. Enable and disable termination protection. Add and remove service contacts. Add, edit, and delete service tags. View service tags. Change clouds and regions. Change deployment models. Perform service maintenance updates. Create, edit, and delete project VPCs and peering connections. Update IP allowlists. Change the network configuration options. View all project VPCs. List all peering connections. View project event log. Get the project's software bill of materials report download link. Create, edit, and delete integration endpoints. Enable and disable service integrations. View integration endpoints. View all service integrations for the project, including integrations with services in other projects. View service users. Manage service users. View service user credentials. View the list of service backups. Configure backup settings. View service logs. Create, edit, delete, associate and dissociate static IP addresses.
Read only	read_only	View project event log. View project tags. View project permissions. View all services and their configuration. Cannot view Kafka Connect connector configurations. Viewing connector configurations requires the service:data:write permission because they can contain secrets in plain text. View integration endpoints. View static IP addresses.
Project admin	role:project:admin	Manage project permissions. Manage project tags. View project audit logs and event logs. Manage project integration endpoints and service integrations. Manage all services in the project and their configuration. Manage project VPCs and peering connections. Associate and remove static IP addresses. Perform service queries through the API and Console. Manage service-specific features such as Kafka topics and schemas, PostgreSQL connection pools, and OpenSearch indexes. View and manage service users and credentials. View service logs and metrics. Update project settings. Delete the project.
Project read access	role:project:read	View project event logs. View project permissions. View integration endpoints. View service integrations for the project. View all services and their configuration. View all project VPCs and peering connections. View project tags. View logs for all services in the project. View metrics for all services in the project. View service users in all services in the project. View service tags for all services in the project. Service configuration secrets and service user passwords are redacted.
Maintain services	role:services:maintenance	Perform service maintenance updates. Change maintenance windows. Upgrade service versions.
Recover services	role:services:recover	View all details for services in a project. Add and remove dynamic disk sizing and tiered storage. Change service plans. Create a fork of a service. Promote read replicas.

Project permissions

Console name	API name	Allowed actions
[Deprecated] View project audit logs	project:audit_logs:read	This permissions is deprecated and will be sunset on 30 October 2026. Use project:event_logs:read instead. View the logs for the project. View all services in the project.
View project event logs	project:event_logs:read	View the logs for the project. View all services in the project.
View project integrations	project:integrations:read	View all integration endpoints for the project. View all service integrations for the project, including integrations with services in other projects.
Manage project integrations	project:integrations:write	Add and remove integration endpoints. Enable and disable service integrations. Create services to integrate an existing service with. Read and write integration secrets.
View project networking	project:networking:read	View all project VPCs. List all peering connections.
Manage project networking	project:networking:write	Create, edit, and delete project VPCs and peering connections. View all project VPCs and peering connections.
View project permissions	project:permissions:read	View all users granted permissions to a project.
View services	project:services:read	View all details for services in a project, except the service logs and metrics. View project settings.
Manage services	project:services:write	Create and delete services. Power on and off services. Add and remove dynamic disk sizing and tiered storage. Change service plans. Change deployment models. Change clouds and regions. Update IP allowlists. Change the network configuration options. Add, edit, and delete service tags. Enable and disable termination protection. Configure backup settings. Add and remove service contacts. Create a fork of a service.
Manage service configuration	service:configuration:write	Change clouds and regions. Change deployment models. Update IP allowlists. Change the network configuration options. Add and remove service tags. Enable and disable termination protection. Configure backup settings. Add and remove service contacts.
Access data	service:data:write	Perform service queries through the API and Console. View query statistics and current queries. Manage service-specific features like Kafka Topics and Schemas, PostgreSQL connection pools, and OpenSearch indexes.
View service logs	service:logs:read	View logs for all services in the project. Service logs may contain sensitive information.
View service metrics	service:metrics:read	View metrics for all services in the project.
View configuration secrets	service:secrets:read	Read service configuration secrets such as keys. View service users.
Manage service users	service:users:write	Create and delete service users. View service users. View, update, and reset connection information for services. View service user credentials. Manage service user credentials. View all services in a project.

Related pages

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