Add an Amazon Web Services Cloud Account
Amazon Web Services
Cloud Account To create an
Amazon Web Services
cloud account with or without cloud zones, you make a POST request. The request body
includes the parameters specific to Amazon Web Services
that are required to create the cloud account. - Verify that all general prerequisites and prerequisites for theAutomation AssemblerInfrastructure as a Service (IaaS) service have been satisfied. See Prerequisites for API Use Case Examples.
- Verify that you have theAmazon Web Servicesaccess key ID and theAmazon Web Servicessecret access key for the new cloud account.
- Assign theAmazon Web Servicesaccount variables.aws_access_key_id='<your_aws_access_key_id>' aws_secret_access_key='<your_aws_secret_access_key>'
- Submit a request to create anAmazon Web Servicescloud account without default cloud zones.When the parametercreateDefaultZonesis left unspecified, the cloud account is created without default cloud zones by default.curl -X POST \ "$url/iaas/api/cloud-accounts?apiVersion=$api_version" \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" \ -d '{ "privateKeyId": "'$aws_access_key_id'", "cloudAccountType": "aws", "name": "<your_aws_cloud_account>", "description": "This is a demo AWS cloud account without cloud zones", "regionIds": [ "<your_region_id1>", "<your_region_id2>" ], "privateKey": "'$aws_secret_access_key'" }' | jq "."
- Submit a request to create anAmazon Web Servicescloud account with default cloud zones.curl -X POST \ "$url/iaas/api/cloud-accounts?apiVersion=$api_version" \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" \ -d '{ "privateKeyId": "'$aws_access_key_id'", "cloudAccountType": "aws", "name": "<your_aws_cloud_account>", "description": "This is a demo AWS cloud account with default cloud zones", "regionIds": [ "<your_region_id1>", "<your_region_id2>" ], "createDefaultZones": true, "privateKey": "'$aws_secret_access_key'" }' | jq "."
- To obtain your cloud account ID, examine the response.
- Assign the cloud account ID variable to your cloud account ID.cloud_account_id='<your_cloud_account_id>'
- List all cloud accounts.curl -X GET $url/iaas/api/cloud-accounts?apiVersion=$api_version -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" | jq "."
- To look up the cloud account you created, list the cloud account with your cloud account ID.curl -X GET $url/iaas/api/cloud-accounts/$cloud_account_id?apiVersion=$api_version -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" | jq "."The response shows the cloud account name and ID for theAmazon Web Servicescloud account you created.
Create an
Amazon Web Services
Cloud AccountAssign the required variables.
$ url='https://appliance.domain.com' $ api_version='2021-07-15' $ aws_access_key_id='FEDCBA5JJ2F43TUVW7XA' $ aws_secret_access_key='XYZfGo0/Vb5XPezeC58QRSvLMNOwsHhuB2IbEJxL'
Create a cloud account named
demo-aws-account
without default cloud zones.$ curl -X POST \ "$url/iaas/api/cloud-accounts?apiVersion=$api_version" \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" \ -d '{ "privateKeyId": "'$aws_access_key_id'", "cloudAccountType": "aws", "name": "demo-aws-account", "description": "This is a demo AWS cloud account without cloud zones", "regionIds": [ "us-east-1", "us-west-1" ], "privateKey": "'$aws_secret_access_key'" }' | jq "."
A snippet of the response from your request shows the account ID.
... "tags": [], "name": "demo-aws-account", "id": "c8c3c9bfdb449475-7f703c5265a63d87-f8e705d89b2569e1aac66c6d00bf4fc7ef4b1c44100f0e944af31eb8ba3d2a5a-f4226a20b65c4675574bc5fbff6c0", "updatedAt": "2022-04-02", "organizationId": "8327d53f-91ea-420a-8613-ba8f3149db95", ...