Configure AWS accounts

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Preparing your AWS environment for CloudBolt Platform integration requires IAM roles and an S3 bucket. This page describes how to use a CloudBolt-provided AWS CloudFormation template to create them.

The template creates the following:

Cross-account IAM roles: Least-privilege IAM roles enabling cost report access. The FOCUS role can also create cost report exports on CloudBolt’s behalf (but not delete them).
Permissions for the cost report exports: The template grants CloudBolt the permissions needed to create the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) 1.0, FOCUS 1.2 Hourly, FOCUS 1.2 Daily, and Cost Optimization Recommendations data exports. When a connection is established, CloudBolt creates any that do not exist.
S3 bucket: Created when CreateS3Bucket=true (default), with policies for report storage. Set CreateS3Bucket=false to use an existing bucket.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, ensure the following:

Configure Azure tenants

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Before connecting your Azure tenant to CloudBolt Platform, ensure that your billing account type is supported and that your Azure administrator has the required permissions for onboarding.

CloudBolt does not request any additional permissions. Any elevated permissions granted to your Azure administrator may be removed once onboarding completes.

To learn more about the resources CloudBolt creates during onboarding, refer to Connect Azure.

Time estimate

This process takes approximately 10–15 minutes. If you choose to include 12 months of historical cost data (recommended), the background data import runs for an additional 15–60 minutes.

Configure cloud accounts for onboarding on CloudBolt Documentation

Configure AWS accounts

Prerequisites

Configure Azure tenants