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This article instructs on adding an AWS account to Cloudaware using the AWS IAM role. Ensure you have a Cloudaware account and the necessary level of access to the AWS console before proceedingpermissions in AWS.

  1. Log in to your Cloudaware account → Admin.

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Quick launch

Manual creation

This option allows launching the AWS CloudFormation stack with a pre-generated Cloudaware template. Click Launch Stack to be redirected to AWS Console:

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This option allows the manual creation of and setting up of a stack for the Cloudaware IAM roleAWS CloudFormation stack. Click Template to download* the CloudFormation template:

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*Download populated with account data - the template will contain your Cloudaware account-specific data with AWS Account data auto-populated
Download with placeholders - the template will contain placeholders that need to be populated with AWS accounts data

4. In Log in to AWS console, if you chose:

Quick launch

Manual creation

Note that Amazon S3 URL is pre-selected as Template source. The URL for Cloudaware template is auto-populated. Click Next.

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Go to All Services → the section 'Management & Governance' → CloudFormation. 

Click Create Stack → With new resources (standard).

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At the 'Step 1 - Create Stack'* select Select Upload a template file →click Choose file* to upload the template. Click Next.

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* - upload the Cloudaware template.

At the 'Step 2 - 5. Specify stack details' in AWS:

a. Provide Stack name (or leave it as is, e.g. cloudaware-iam-role-stack)

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c. In the section 'Policies', select preferable features. Click Next.

At the 'Step 3 - Configure stack options' in AWS: set 6. Configure stack by setting up tags and permissions, stack failure options, and advanced options if necessary. Click Next.

At the 'Step 4 - Review and create' in AWS: check 7. Review the stack details and check . Check the box I acknowledge that AWS CloudFormation might create IAM resources with custom names. Click Submit.

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Note

Please allow some time for the stack to be created.

8. Open the tab 'Outputs' for the created stack. Copy the IAM Role ARN value.

59. Go back to Cloudaware. Paste Role ARN in the form. Click Check:

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