# Managing permission profiles
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As a RES administrator, you can perform the following actions to manage permission profiles.

**List permission profiles**
+ From the Research and Engineering Studio console page, choose **Permission policy** in the left-hand navigation pane. From this page you can create, update, list, view and delete permission profiles.  
![\[administrators can list permission profiles\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/res/latest/ug/images/project-roles.png)

**View permission profiles**

1. On the main **Permission Profiles** page, select the name of the permission profile you want to view. From this page you can edit or delete the selected permission profile.  
![\[administrators can edit or delete permission profiles\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/res/latest/ug/images/res-permission-profiles-view-1.png)

1. Select the **Affected projects** tab to view the projects that currently use the permission profile.  
![\[administrators can view the projects affected by permission profiles\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/res/latest/ug/images/res-permission-profiles-view-2.png)

**Create permission profiles**

1. On the main **Permission Profiles** page, choose **Create profile** to create a permission profile.

1. Enter a permission profile name and description, then select the permissions to grant to the users or groups that you assign to this profile.  
![\[administrators can create permission profiles\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/res/latest/ug/images/res-permission-profiles-create.png)

**Edit permission profiles**
+ On the main **Permission Profiles** page, select a profile by clicking the circle next to it, choose **Actions**, then choose **Edit profile** to update that permission profile.  
![\[administrators can edit permission profiles\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/res/latest/ug/images/res-permission-profiles-edit.png)

**Delete permission profiles**
+ On the main **Permission Profiles** page, select a profile by clicking the circle next to it, choose **Actions**, then choose **Delete profile**. You cannot delete a permission profile that is used by any existing project.  
![\[administrators can delete permission profiles\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/res/latest/ug/images/res-permission-profiles-delete.png)