AWS

This document describes the how to set up AWS as a Cloud Provider on Cloudsania

Setting Up AWS as a Cloud Provider:

📘 Connect AWS to Cloudsania:

1️⃣ Log in to your Cloudsania account.

2️⃣ Navigate to the Cloud Connectors section and click New Connector.

3️⃣ Select AWS from the list of cloud service providers.

4️⃣ Provide Connector details:

• Connector Name

• Select your AWS Regions from the list of regions, you'll get a dropdown to choose your desired AWS Regions.

5️⃣ Configure connector access:

Step 1: Choose the appropriate access privileges (Default Access or Least Privilege Access) and click 'Continue'.

• Default Access- Allows Cloudsania to scan your resources and automatically include future capabilities (Highly recommended)

• Least Privilege Access- Grants Cloudsania access only to the current permissions needed for the selected konstack. If you select the least privileged permissions, you'll get a konstack dropdown for you to choose your desired cloud service.

Step 2: Configure Connector For default-access:

1. In your Amazon Web Services console, under Security, Identity & Compliance, select IAM.

1. You need to create a user

1. In the 'Specify User Details' step, provide a user name for the Cloudsania connector and click 'Next'.

Naming Convention

The user name must follow the Cloudsania naming convention:

For default connector: cloudsania-default-access-connector

1. In the 'Set Permission' step, select 'Attach existing policies directly', then click 'Create policy'.

1. In the 'Specify permission' step, Select the 'JSON' tab

1. Paste the Cloudsania default policy into the provided area, and click 'Next':

1. In the 'Review and create' step, enter the Policy name, and description (optional) review the permissions, specify details, and tags (optional), and then create the policy.

1. Return to the 'Set Permission' step, search for the created policy, select the policy and click 'Next'.

1. In the 'Review and create' step, review your choices. If the details are correct, select 'Create user''.

1. Navigate to the User info page, click 'Create access key'

1. On the Access key best practice & alternatives step, select 'Command Line Interface (CLI). Click on the checkbox for confirmation. Proceed to click 'Next'.

1. Set a description tag (optional), then click 'Create access key'

1. In the 'Retrieve access key' step, select Download .csv to save a copy of the new user's credentials. You'll need these later, then click on 'Done'.

5️⃣ Enter Access and Secret keys:

• Enter your AWS account ID.

• Paste the Access key and Secret key from the .csv file into the relevant fields, and select 'Create'.

• After successfully creating your AWS connector, you will be navigated to the Connector page to view and manage the setup connector.