How to give Orchestrator API access to your AWS account

You may need to get API access to your AWS subscription, either because you want to have a "BYOS" subscription of the Multi-Cloud Orchestrator, or you want to deploy an Instant Cloud Solution from the marketplace.

After logging into the AWS admin panel, this operation is structured in 3 parts:

  1. Create new user or select existing one
  2. Give the new user admin rights or make sure the existing one has them
  3. Retrieve account credentials

Note: All 3 parts of the procedure must be successfully completed for the API access to be valid.

Rights to be given

  • Give admin right to the user account to be used by the Multi-Cloud Orchestrator

Credentials to be extracted

  • AWS API keys
  • Access Key ID
  • Secret Key Access

Create new user or select existing one

Log in to the AWS admin panel

  1. Type your email address / account ID / account alias and click on "Next" button

signin

  1. If prompted solve captcha and click on "Submit" button.

submit

  1. Type your password and click on "Sign In" button.

signingin

Give Ingram Micro Cloud API access

  1. Open "Services" menu

services

  1. Click on "Security, Identity, & Compliance" → "IAM".

security

  1. Click on "Users" in the left side menu.

users

  1. Click on "Add user" button.

addUser

  1. Type a name for the new user and check "Programmatic access" in "Access type".

accessType

Give the new user admin rights or make sure the existing one has them

  1. Select "Attach existing policies directly", then check the policy "AdministratorAccess" in the policy table and click on "Next:Tags" button.

setPermissions

  1. Click on "Next:Review" button.

nextReview

  1. Click on "Create user" button.

createUser

Retrieve account credentials

  1. Click on "Show" in "Secret access key" table row.

RoleAssignment

  1. Copy and save your "Access key ID" and "Secret access key".

RoleAssignment