Create a service account for AWS GovCloud

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

    • If your organization uses AWS GovCloud (US) region, you must create a service account in the region where you provision the resources. These credentials that you create are used for Cloud Discovery, Cloud Provisioning and Governance, and Cloud Cost Management.

    Antes de Iniciar

    Nota:
    Skip this procedure if your organization does not use AWS GovCloud (US).
    • Role required: sn_cmp.cloud_admin
    • AWS GovCloud (US) credentials for each GovCloud region.
    • AWS GovCloud (US) account ID (from the AWS Management Console).

    Por Que e Quando Desempenhar Esta Tarefa

    A service account holds the credential and account information that you created in your provider account. Discovery uses the information to access your provider account and then obtain information on each logical datacenter that is associated with the account.

    Procedimento

    1. Navigate to All > Cloud Provisioning and Governance > Cloud Admin Portal > Service Accounts.
    2. Click New, enter a unique and descriptive name for the account (for example, AWS GovCloud SA O1) and then fill in the Cloud Service Account form.
      Field Description
      Account ID Account ID to which this credential belongs.
      Discovery credentials Select the name of the credentials that you created in the Create AWS GovCloud credentials for Cloud Provisioning and Governance procedure. In the example, you used the name AWS GovCloud Creds O1.
      Datacenter URL URL of the datacenter. For example, https://ec2.us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com
      Datacenter type Select the CMDB table that represents the type of datacenter. For example, the [cmdb_ci_aws_datacenter] table.
      Datacenter discovery status Auto-generated value: Status and timestamp of the last execution of Discovery on the datacenter.
    3. Click Update or Submit.
      The system creates the service account and displays the list of all discovered datacenters.

    O que Fazer Depois

    Repeat the process to create additional service accounts as needed. Run Discovery for each datacenter.