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This article instructs on adding an AWS account to Cloudaware using two different options. Note that Cloudaware requires read-only permissions to collect data from cloud providers. |
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Adding AWS Account Using Access And Secret Keys
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a) If starting a trial with Cloudaware, check your email to locate a welcoming message and click Add AWS Account. Proceed to the Cloudaware Launcher to add your AWS account:
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b) If you are already logged in to your Cloudaware account, select Admin in the menu under your username. Locate Amazon Organizations & Accounts. Click +Add.
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2. Select Using Access and Secret Keys as an integration type. Click Cloudaware IAM policies to download the policies Collector Part #1 and Collector #2. The rest of IAM Policies are optional, depending on the functionality you are going to use.
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5. Fill in the Account name, check the box 'Programmatic access' and click 'Next: Permissions'.
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6. 'Set permissions' and 'Add user to group' are optional.
7. 'Add tags' is optional.
8. Review your choice and click Create user.
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10. Go back to the list of users and choose the one you have recently created. Select the tab 'Permissions' and click Add Inline policy. On the next page, select the tab 'JSON' and add the policy code from Cloudaware console (Amazon account details).
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Fill in the name and click Create policy.
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12. Fill in the Account name, Access key and Secret key and click Check. Your AWS Account will be added automatically.
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a) If starting a trial with Cloudaware, check your email to locate a welcoming message and click Add AWS Account in it.
b) If you are logged in to your Cloudaware account, select Admin in the menu under your username. Locate Amazon Organizations & Accounts. Click +Add.
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5. Select Upload a template file → Choose file to apply the downloaded template, click Next.
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*You can generate External ID in the Cloudaware console by clicking 'Generate Random' button (see the form in p. 2) |
7. In the section 'Policies', enable preferred features and click Next.
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9. On the Review page, check the details and check the box I acknowledge that AWS CloudFormation might create IAM resources with custom names. Click Create Stack.
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10. Please allow some time for the stack to be created.
11. Open the tab 'Outputs' for the created stack. Copy the IAM Role ARN value.
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