Configuring access to CI data on your AWS account
To ensure secure and reliable communications, the Discovery process communicates with your cloud provider accounts and cloud resources through one or more MID Servers. You can set up the MID Servers on your network or in one of your cloud networks.
Important:
This
information applies to both the Cloud Cost Management and Cloud Insights Billing apps. All
references to Cloud Cost Management also
apply to Cloud Insights Billing.
Requirements
Important:
This
configuration process applies only if you use the Discovery application to
discover cloud resources. Skip this process if you use a different method
for discovering resources.
AWS: There must be an internal network connection between the MID Servers and the AWS Cloud API endpoints: *.amazonaws.com.
Detailed instructions
See Amazon AWS Cloud Discovery.
MID Server settings for Cloud Cost Management
Note:
MID Server minimum memory size should be 4 GB.
| Setting | Value |
|---|---|
| Supported Applications | Cloud Actions |
| Capabilities | The ALL setting includes
all required applications and capabilities.
Alternatively, you can specify the following
settings:
Note: You can
specify the following settings for any number of
MID Servers. If you specify
multiple MID Servers, then
Discovery, billing data download
operations, and actions that are recommended by
Cloud Cost Management are assigned to one
of the MID Servers at
random. Option 1: To use this MID Server
only for AWS,
specify both of the following values:
Option 2: To use this MID Server
for all providers, specify the following
values:
|
Using a proxy server
You can use a proxy server for the Cloud Cost Management MID Server. See Proxy server configuration for your Cloud Cost Management MID Server.