Connect your Amazon Web Services (AWS) account

You can connect your AWS account to cost management and the RHEL management bundle in the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console.

Cost management
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Connect your AWS account to cost management to track your cloud costs. You can use the cost management service to perform financially related tasks, such as:

  • Visualizing, understanding, and analyzing the use of resources and costs
  • Forecasting your future consumption and comparing them with budgets
  • Optimizing resources and consumption
  • Identifying patterns of usage for further analysis
  • Integrating with third-party tools that can benefit from cost and resourcing data

RHEL management bundle
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Connect your AWS account to the RHEL management bundle in the Hybrid Cloud Console to use your Red Hat product subscriptions on AWS.

The RHEL management bundle grants access to additional capabilities which are useful to deploying Red Hat products on the public cloud, including:

  • Red Hat gold images: You can use Red Hat cloud images in AWS and bring your own subscription instead of paying hourly.
  • Autoregistration: This allows cloud instances to automatically connect to console.redhat.com when provisioned so you can use Red Hat Lightspeed services. Important
    To use RHEL management, you must enable Simple Content Access.

Create an Amazon Web Services (AWS) integration
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You can connect your AWS account to the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console as a cloud integration so that you can use your AWS data with Hybrid Cloud Console services.

Before you begin
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  • You are logged in to the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console as an Organization Administrator or as a user with Cloud Administrator permissions. Note
    You cannot log in to the Hybrid Cloud Console with your email address unless your email address is the same as your Red Hat login. For more information, see ../get-started/access-hcc.dita#finding-login.
  • You have access to an AWS account that you want to use with the Hybrid Cloud Console that has the following Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles:
    • CreatePolicy
    • CreateRole
    • AttachRolePolicy
    • GetPolicy
    • GetRole
  • To create your AWS integration using the account authorization configuration method (recommended), you have the access key ID and the secret access key for your AWS account.

You can create your integration using the account authorization method and let Red Hat configure and manage your integration for you. If you choose this method, you must provide the access key ID and the secret access key for your AWS account. This is the recommended method. However, if you do not want to provide your AWS account credentials to Red Hat, you can configure your integration manually. After adding your AWS integration, you can view and manage your AWS and other integrations from the Integrations page in the Hybrid Cloud Console.

Procedure
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  1. Go to Settings > Integrations and select the Cloud tab.
  2. Click Add integration to open the Add a cloud integration wizard. If this is the first integration you are adding, skip this step.
  3. Select Amazon Web Services, and then click Next.
  4. Enter a descriptive name for the integration, for example, my_aws_integration, and then click Next.
  5. Select a configuration mode:
    • Select Account authorization to allow Red Hat to configure and manage the integration for you after you provide your AWS credentials. This is the recommended configuration mode.
      1. Enter your AWS access key ID and secret access key and click Next. The Select applications page appears with Cost Management and RHEL management services selected.
      2. Deselect any services that you do not want your integration to connect to, and then click Next. Note
        You can choose to deselect all services in this step. You can connect additional Hybrid Cloud Console services after you finish creating the AWS integration.
    • Select Manual configuration and click Next to configure your integration manually if you do not want to enter your AWS account authorization credentials.
      1. Optional: Select a service to connect to your integration.
      2. Click Next.
      3. Follow the instructions in the integration wizard. Note
        If you selected Cost Management, see ../../cost-management/integrate/integrate-aws-with-cost-management.ditamap#integrate-aws-with-cost-management for detailed instructions.
  6. On the Review details page, review the details of the integration and then click Add. Your AWS integration is added to the Hybrid Cloud Console.

Results
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  1. Go to the Integrations page and select the Cloud tab.
  2. Confirm that your AWS integration is listed and the status is Ready.