Controlling Access to AI Machine Learning Services with IAM.

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Managing access to AI Machine Learning services in a cloud environment is crucial for security and compliance. With Identity and Access Management (IAM), you can define who has what permissions to different resources. This is typically done with policies attached to IAM roles or user accounts that specify the allowed or denied actions.

In this guide, we will create a Python program using Pulumi to manage IAM policies for a hypothetical Machine Learning service. We'll assume we're dealing with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), since GCP has a strong offering of AI and Machine Learning services and its resources appeared prominently in the registry results.

We will define an IAM policy for a Google Cloud AI Platform Model, controlling who can access the model. We will use the `google-native.ml/v1.ModelIamPolicy` resource, as it allows us to manage access control policies specifically for Machine Learning models on Google Cloud.

Here's how we can do this with Pulumi in Python:

1. **Define the IAM policy**: This policy states what roles (permissions) are assigned to which members (users, service accounts).
2. **Attach the policy to a machine learning model**: We apply the IAM policy to a specific AI model, ensuring that only authorized users can access it.

Let's start with the Pulumi program to accomplish this:

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_google_native as google_native

# Replace 'your_project' with your GCP project ID and 'model_name' with the name of your model.
project_id = 'your_project'
model_id = 'model_name'

# IAM policy for the AI Platform Model.
# For simplicity, we are giving the "roles/ml.modelUser" role to a specific member.
# Normally, you would fetch your members from IAM groups or GCP user accounts.
model_iam_policy = google_native.ml.v1.ModelIamPolicy("model-iam-policy",
    project=project_id,
    modelId=model_id,
    bindings=[{
        "role": "roles/ml.modelUser",  # role defining the permissions
        "members": [
            "user:jane.doe@example.com",  # The user who gets the access
        ],
    }],
)

pulumi.export('model_iam_policy_id', model_iam_policy.name)
```

In this program:

- We import the `pulumi` and `pulumi_google_native` modules.
- We define variables for the project ID (`project_id`) and the AI Platform Model ID (`model_id`). These are placeholders, and you should replace them with your actual project and model IDs.
- We use `google_native.ml.v1.ModelIamPolicy` to create our IAM policy.
- We provide a list of `bindings`, each defining a `role` and the `members` who are granted that role. Make sure you replace `jane.doe@example.com` with the email address of the user to whom you want to grant access.
- We then export the `model_iam_policy_id`, which is useful if you want to reference the policy elsewhere in your Pulumi stack or in different Pulumi programs.

Remember to replace placeholders with your actual values. Also, remember that managing IAM policies requires that you have the proper permissions yourself, so ensure that your own Google Cloud user account or service account has sufficient IAM roles to modify IAM policies.

For more details on IAM policies and roles in Google Cloud AI and Machine Learning services, you can refer to [Google Cloud IAM documentation](https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs).