# Requirements for AWS Elemental MediaLive features
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You must give your users access to AWS Elemental MediaLive features. The permissions for MediaLive can be divided into three categories:
+ Permissions to create
+ Permissions to view
+ Permissions to run

You might choose to give different access to different kinds of users. For example, you might decide that "basic operators" should not have create permissions. 

In particular, you must decide whether to restrict the ability to work with reservations; you might decide to give this access only to administrators or advanced users. For more information about reservations, see [Working with reservations in MediaLive](reservations.md).

The following table shows the operations in IAM that relate to access for MediaLive.

[\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/medialive/latest/ug/requirements-for-medialive.html)