# AWS IoT Core policy examples
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The example policies in this section illustrate the policy documents used to complete common tasks in AWS IoT Core. You can use them as examples to start from when creating the policies for your solutions.<a name="example-iot-policies-elements"></a>

The examples in this section use these policy elements:
+ [AWS IoT Core policy actions](iot-policy-actions.md)
+ [AWS IoT Core action resources](iot-action-resources.md)
+ [AWS IoT identity-based policy examples](security_iam_id-based-policy-examples.md)
+ [Basic AWS IoT Core policy variables](basic-policy-variables.md)
+ [X.509 Certificate AWS IoT Core policy variables](cert-policy-variables.md)

**Topics**
+ [Connect policy examples](connect-policy.md)
+ [Publish/Subscribe policy examples](pub-sub-policy.md)
+ [Connect and publish policy examples](connect-and-pub.md)
+ [Retained message policy examples](retained-message-policy-examples.md)
+ [Certificate policy examples](certificate-policy-examples.md)
+ [Thing policy examples](thing-policy-examples.md)
+ [Basic job policy example](basic-jobs-example.md)