Add Amazon Web Services (AWS) Credential
In order to allow Devopness to manage AWS resources on your behalf, IAM user security credentials have to be provided.
If you don't have access to an AWS account, you can create an account for free following the cloud provider specific guide AWS Free Tier
- Log in to AWS console and access AWS IAM
- In the navigation pane on the left side, choose
Users
and then chooseAdd users
- Type the user name for the new user
Tip: you might want to name the user as
devopness
to make it easier to track its activities - Click
Next: Permissions
- In the
Set Permissions
step clickAttach policies directly
- Search and select the policies
AmazonEC2FullAccess
andIAMReadOnlyAccess
- Follow the prompts then click
Create user
- In the
Users
list, click the username link of the user recently created - Click
Security credentials
- In this page, search for
Access keys
section and clickCreate access key
- Choose
Other
and clickNext
- Click
Create access key
- Copy the values of
Access key ID
andSecret access key
- To add the copied credentials to Devopness see Add a Credential