Configuring access settings in Amazon Web Services access portal

Overview

You need to configure a user under Identity and Access Management (IAM) on AWS access portal so that the Amazon Web Services Inventory data provider can use the credential to retrieve data.

Creating a user in AWS access portal

1. Sign in to the AWS access portal.
2. Go to  Identity and Access Management (IAM) > Users and create a new user:

• Provide a user name.
• On the Set permissions page first select Attach policies directly.
• Select AWSResourceExplorerReadOnlyAccess in the Permissions policies list.

• Proceed to the next page and click Create user.

3. In the Users list, click the newly created user.
4. In the Summary section of the user, click Create access key.
5. On the opened page, select Application running outside AWS.
6. Click Next and then Create access key.
7. Save access key and secret access key.

Looking up the default resource view in AWS access portal

To successfully retrieve data from the AWS access portal, you need to set the Resources View Region Name value in the data provider.

In AWS access portal, you can find this value under Views. Copy the region name for which data should be retrieved. When data provider will be collecting data, this data will be filtered by the default view of the selected region.