This chapter provides an introduction to working with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity and Access Management (IAM) with Identity Domains.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure tenancy is provisioned to customers with subscriptions to Oracle Utilities cloud services. Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a built-in part of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and it governs the access to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources and Oracle Cloud Services. Identity domains are part of IAM and is where users and access to Oracle Cloud Services are configured and managed.

Each cloud service subscription includes at least one Identity Domain. The identity domains are managed exclusively by the customer (see Identity Domains for more information).

This chapter includes the following: