AWS Onboarding per Account

AWS cloud onboarding using single credentials for single Account

Customer Prerequisites - Creating IAM User

Customer must follow bellow requirements and prepare for onboarding as follows:

1. Login to Cloud portal

2. Create new IAM user (for example named: 'pulse') must be created under each Account, follow documentation: Creating an IAM user in your AWS account

3. While creating user, add required permission policy: ReadOnlyAccess (built in permission policy, AWS managed - job function) and custom permission "trustedadvisor:List*"

4. For programmatic access, a third-party Access key needs to be created, write down Access key ID and Secret access key which will be required to onboard your account.

5. For getting Cloud resources enable Config service and do this for all(or relevant where resources deployed) regions: Change Region, Open AWS Config Service, select '1-click setup', select 'Confirm'. Repeat.

Customer Prerequisites - Creating Cost Export

Customer must follow bellow requirements and prepare cost export to proceed on onboarding to PULSE platform. To start collecting your Cloud Billing data, you must create cost export following this guide steps you need to do:

1. Login to Cloud portal

2. Open Billing and Cost Management, Select menu: Data Exports

3. Press Create and select options:

• Standard data export

• Enter Export name: 'DailyExports'

• Select 'Include resource IDs'

• Select 'Split cost allocation data'

• Select 'Daily'

• Leave Selection 'Column selection (125/125)' as is

• Select 'gzip - text/csv'

• Select 'Overwrite existing data export file'

• Configure S3, general purpose bucket, name it for example <prefix#-costexports-s3bucket-no#>, select your usually used region. On the same Account as IAM user.

• Enter S3 path prefix: 'Pulse'

• Create!

4. You need to wait for data to come in before proceeding, usually AWS sends information twice over 24 hours.

5. Open S3 Service

6. Select S3 Bucket you just created

7. Open twice objects (folders) prefix and export names, until you see data and metadata objects

8. Copy browser URL for later use.

PULSE Configuration - Onboarding SA

• Login to PULSE platform

• Open Cloud Management under Administration

• Add AWS credentials

  • Access Key ID

  • Secret Access Key

• Save [done]

PULSE Configuration - Onboarding Cost Export

1. Login to PULSE platform

2. Open Cloud Management menu under Administration

3. Add Billing Export Configuration

   • Project Name [Account name where cost export data set is located]

   • Cost Export URL [Example: https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/s3/buckets/costexportss3bucket?region=us-east-1&bucketType=general&prefix=Pulse/DailyExports/]

4. Save [done]