Add an Amazon Web Service Credential

Add an existing AWS user account to NavOps so that you can create a cloud environment.

You must have already created an AWS user account, given it administrative permissions and downloaded a CSV file containing an access key ID and a secret access key. The information in the CSV file is necessary to create a cloud account in NavOps. If you do not have this information see Create an Amazon Web Service User Account.
  1. Login to NavOps.
  2. Go to Clouds, and then select Credentials.
  3. Click Add Cloud Credentials
  4. Select Amazon Web Services.
  5. Enter the following to add a cloud account:
    1. For Name, enter any name for the cloud account.
      The name can be anything meaningful to your organization, e.g., aws_cloudaccount.
    2. For Auth Method, select API Key.
      Note: You can also select the IAM Role if that is suitable for the cloud credentials. NavOps must be installed on an instance hosted in AWS and have the role associated to that instance.
    3. For Access Key ID, copy and paste the value of Access key ID from the downloaded CSV file.
    4. For Secret Access Key, copy and paste the Secret access key value from the downloaded CSV file.
    5. For Partition, choose Default. for public cloud
      You can choose China or US Gov to create credentials in those clouds
  6. (Optional) For Tags, enter the suitable tags for the credentials.
  7. Click Test to check the credentials. If an error message is displayed, inspect the details from the Tasks list.
  8. Click Save.