Add an AWS GovCloud service account

  • Versão de lançamento: Australia
  • Atualizado 12 de mar. de 2026
  • 1 min. de leitura

    • If your organization uses AWS GovCloud (US) regions, you create a service account for each region. The credentials that you create during the service account creation, are used for Cloud Discovery and Cloud Cost Management.

    Antes de Iniciar

    Role required: sn_cmp.cloud_admin

    Por Que e Quando Desempenhar Esta Tarefa

    A service account holds the credential and account information that you created in your provider account. A cloud_admin can add an AWS GovCloud service account. Be sure to set up download jobs for billing and price sheet data for the service account.

    Procedimento

    1. Navigate to All > Cloud Provisioning and Governance > Cloud Admin Portal > Service Accounts.
    2. Select New.
    3. On the form, fill in the fields.
      Tabela 1. Cloud Service Account form fields
      Field Description
      Name A unique and descriptive name for the service account. For example, AWS GovCloud SA 01.
      Account Id Account ID to which this credential belongs.
      Discovery credentials Name of the credentials that you created in the Create an AWS IAM user policy for Cloud Cost Management procedure.
      Datacenter URL URL of the datacenter. For example, https://ec2.us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com
      Datacenter Type The CMDB table that represents the type of datacenter.
      Datacenter discovery status Status and timestamp of the last execution of the Discovery application on the datacenter.
    4. Select Submit.

    Resultado

    The service account gets created and displays the list of all discovered datacenters.