Overview

Use the AWS Cloud Management app to gain visibility into Cloud resources, such as virtual machines, disks, and more across your AWS accounts.


Description

The AWS Cloud Management App discovers virtual assets and performs Cloud actions across your AWS accounts and syncs them into the Freshservice CMDB, providing a single view to manage your Cloud resources. The resources discovered include:


  1. Instances (Virtual Machines)

  2. Volumes (Disks)

  3. RDS

  4. Load Balancer

  5. Security groups

  6. OS Templates and images

  7. Networks (VPCs) and Subnets

  8. Network Interfaces

  9. Elastic IP

  10. S3 Buckets

  11. AWS Key 


Prerequisites


To install and authenticate this app, you will need to provide the following inputs:

1. Secret Key

2. Access Key


To get these keys, you need to perform the following steps:


1. Login to your AWS management console.

2. Create a user under Services > IAM > Users > Add User.
3. Go to IAM > Users > Select the created user > Add Permissions.


 

4. From the list of existing policies, select AmazonEC2FullAccess and add the policy.




Note: The AWS Cloud Discovery app was renamed and updated to the AWS Cloud Management app. With this update, users can benefit from Cloud Discovery and Orchestration features from the same application. Update the above permission ( AmazonEC2FullAccess) to use the Take Action feature in Cloud Management. 



Steps to get the AWS credentials

 

1. Use AWS account ID /account alias, IAM user name, and password to sign in to the IAM console.

2. In the search bar, search for Users. Choose a username from the list and select Security Credentials.

3. To create an access key, select Create New Access Key. If this feature is disabled, delete one of the existing keys before creating a new one. 

Note: You can view or download the secret access key only once. 

4. To copy the key for reference, select Show Access Key. 

5. To save the access key ID and secret access key as a .csv file choose Download Key File.

 



Steps for installation with AWS Security Credentials:


Once you login into your account on the AWS Console


1. Search for IAM. Select Users from the menu on the left.

2. On the Users page, select the user and go to the Security credentials section.

3. Scroll down to find the Access Key section of the page.

4. Copy the existing Access and Secret Key if you have stored it and paste it into the AWS app on the Freshservice page.

5. You can create a new Access key by clicking Create Access Key. Copy and paste the Access key into the AWS app on the Freshservice page.






Click here to learn how to perform Cloud actions on your AWS Cloud resources.