Set Up AWS Credentials for CloudIM

CloudIM for AWS Amazon Web Services. A cloud computing platform that provides infrastructure services, including data storage and AI inference services used by . requires an IAM user with limited read access. Create the user, attach the permissions policy below, then create access keys. You use those keys when you add an AWS authentication profile for CloudIM.

For the full CloudIM setup path, see Configuring CloudIM.

Create an IAM user

To create an IAM user for CloudIM:

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console.

2. Open the IAM Dashboard and create an IAM user.

3. On the user Permissions tab, click Add Permissions and add the following policy:

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   {
     "Version": "2012-10-17",
     "Statement": [
       {
         "Effect": "Allow",
         "Action": [
           "ec2:DescribeInstances",
           "ec2:DescribeVpcPeeringConnections",
           "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
           "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
           "s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
           "s3:ListBucket",
           "lambda:ListFunctions"
         ],
         "Resource": "*"
       },
       {
         "Effect": "Allow",
         "Action": [
           "cloudwatch:ListMetrics",
           "cloudwatch:GetMetricData",
           "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics"
         ],
         "Resource": "*"
       }
     ]
   }

Create access keys

To create access keys for the IAM user:

1. In the IAM Dashboard, click Users in the left pane.

2. Open the CloudIM user you created.

3. On the user details page, open the Security credentials tab.

4. Create access keys for the user. Store the Access Key ID and Secret Access Key securely for the authentication profile.

Next step

After you have the access keys, add an AWS authentication profile for CloudIM.