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When you are using Clouds to discover your Amazon AWS instances, you will need to two credential items - key and secret key.
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On the next page you will be able to select Access Keys and see your key or create a new key.
Required AWS user permissions
The only required permission / policy name (in our testing) is AmazonEC2ReadOnlyAccess.
Using
Once you have those items, in Open-AudIT Enterprise you can go to menu -> Discover -> Clouds -> Create Clouds, select the "Amazon AWS" type and paste them in. Done :)
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