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This article explains how to add AWS accounts to Cloudaware using an AWS IAM role. Ensure you have the necessary permissions in AWS.

  1. Log in to your Cloudaware account → Admin.

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Quick launch

Manual creation

This option allows launching 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 AWS CloudFormation stack. Click Template to download* the CloudFormation template:

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*Download populated with account data - the template will contain your AWS Account data auto-populated, e.g. billing buckets
Download with placeholders - the template will contain placeholders that need to be populated with AWS accounts data

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External ID: paste External ID generated in the Cloudaware console (see step 3.b)

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

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