# Access Approval documentation

[Read product documentation](https://docs.cloud.google.com/assured-workloads/access-approval/docs/overview)
Google Cloud offers several administrative access controls that are designed
to ensure that Google personnel can't access Customer Data stored
on Google Cloud without your explicit consent. Access Approval
lets you control access to your organization's data by Google
personnel.
[Go to the Access Approval product page for
more.](https://cloud.google.com/security/products/access-transparency/)


Access Transparency records the actions that Google personnel take when accessing
Customer Data stored on Google Cloud. For more information, see [Access Transparency
documentation](https://docs.cloud.google.com/assured-workloads/access-transparency/docs).


Key Access Justifications aims to give you visibility into a request for an
externally-managed encryption key by including a justification for that
request. For more information, see [Overview of
Key Access Justifications](https://docs.cloud.google.com/assured-workloads/key-access-justifications/docs/overview).


Assured Workloads lets you secure your workloads and accelerate your
path to running compliant workloads on Google Cloud. For more information, see
[Assured Workloads
documentation](https://docs.cloud.google.com/assured-workloads/docs).

## Documentation resources

Find quickstarts and guides, review key references, and get help with common issues.

### Guides

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  [Overview of Access Approval](https://docs.cloud.google.com/assured-workloads/access-approval/docs/overview)

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  [Configure Access Approval using the default signing key](https://docs.cloud.google.com/assured-workloads/access-approval/docs/review-approve-access-requests-google-keys)

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  [Enable Access Approval using Terraform](https://docs.cloud.google.com/assured-workloads/access-approval/docs/using-terraform)

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  [Approve Access Approval requests](https://docs.cloud.google.com/assured-workloads/access-approval/docs/approve-requests)

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  [View historical and active Access Approval requests](https://docs.cloud.google.com/assured-workloads/access-approval/docs/view-historical-requests)

### Reference

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  [REST API](https://docs.cloud.google.com/assured-workloads/access-approval/docs/reference/rest)

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  [Anatomy of an Access Approval request](https://docs.cloud.google.com/assured-workloads/access-approval/docs/approval-request-details)

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  [Supported services](https://docs.cloud.google.com/assured-workloads/access-approval/docs/supported-services)

### Resources

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  [Release Notes](https://docs.cloud.google.com/assured-workloads/access-approval/docs/release-notes)

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  [Pricing](https://docs.cloud.google.com/assured-workloads/access-approval/pricing)