Generate AWS Credentials

Purpose

This document describes how to create Amazon Web Services (AWS) credentials.

Introduction

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a web service for securely controlling access to AWS services. IAM provides the ability to centrally manage users, security credentials such as access keys, and permissions that control which AWS resources users and applications can access.

Create an IAM Policy

Click on Policies to the left of the AWS console, and click on the Create Policy. This opens the Create Policy page where you can create a new IAM policy.
1. Click on JSON. This opens an IAM policy editor where you can insert your policy.
  
  The policy is explained later in this document and can be found in Appendix 1 in JSON Format.
Click on the Review policy button on bottom right and fix Policy Name and Description if your policy is not valid.
To validate the policy, click on the Create Policy button.

Create an IAM Role

Log in to AWS console and enter IAM Service.
Click on Roles on the left menu and then click on Create role button to open Create role window.
Select Another AWS Account as type of trusted entity.
Fill the form using “947065867758” as Account ID.
Select Require external ID as Options and use the External ID provided in the Amazon section of Integrations Settings panel in OUTSCAN.
Select the AWS policy you created.
Add a name to the AWS role and set a description.
Click on the Create role button on the bottom right.

Configure AWS Credentials

In the drop-down menu select Amazon Web Services.
Add the name of your AWS account.
Select how to log in:
1. Select Login with Access Key, to login using the access key ID and Secret Access Key.
2. Select Login with Role, to login using ARN Role.
Click blue ADD button to create the credentials.

To manage your account, refer to Scan Credentials.

References

AWS IAM Best Practice:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/best-practices.html

AWS IAM Policy Simulator:

https://policysim.aws.amazon.com/home/index.jsp

Appendix-1

The below appendix consists of the AWS Policy for Outpost24 product in JSON format.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "Stmt1493798226000",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
                "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "Sid": "Stmt1493798278000",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:DescribeImages",
                "ec2:DescribeInstanceAttribute",
                "ec2:DescribeInstanceStatus",
                "ec2:DescribeInstances",
                "ec2:DescribeFlowLogs",
                "ec2:DescribeKeyPairs",
                "ec2:DescribeNetworkAcls",
                "ec2:DescribeRouteTables",
                "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
                "ec2:DescribeSnapshots",
                "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
                "ec2:DescribeTags",
                "ec2:DescribeVpcs"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "Sid": "Stmt1493805833000",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "iam:GenerateCredentialReport",
                "iam:GetAccountPasswordPolicy",
                "iam:GetAccountSummary",
                "iam:GetCredentialReport",
                "iam:GetPolicyVersion",
                "iam:GetRolePolicy",
                "iam:ListAttachedUserPolicies",
                "iam:ListEntitiesForPolicy",
                "iam:ListPolicies",
                "iam:ListRolePolicies",
                "iam:ListRoles",
                "iam:ListUserPolicies",
                "iam:ListUsers",
                "iam:ListVirtualMFADevices"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "Sid": "Stmt1493812702000",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "cloudtrail:DescribeTrails",
                "cloudtrail:GetTrailStatus",
                "cloudtrail:GetEventSelectors"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "Sid": "Stmt1493812834000",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "s3:GetBucketAcl",
                "s3:GetBucketLogging",
                "s3:GetBucketPolicy"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "Sid": "Stmt1493812945000",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "config:DescribeConfigurationRecorderStatus",
                "config:DescribeConfigurationRecorders"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "Sid": "Stmt1493813079000",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "kms:GetKeyRotationStatus",
                "kms:ListKeys"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "Sid": "Stmt1493813352000",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "logs:DescribeMetricFilters"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "Sid": "Stmt1493813470000",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "sns:ListSubscriptionsByTopic",
                "sns:ListTopics"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Viewing AWS Policy for Outpost24 software Summary in the AWS Console.

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