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  1. Home
  2. IT Analytics Help
  3. Section XII. Cloud
  4. Configuration for Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  5. Link AWS accounts for Collection of consolidated billing data
  6. Add the role to the IAM user

Add the role to the IAM user

  1. Log in to the AWS Payer Account.

  2. In the AWS IAM window, select the User that you created.

    See Create an AWS IAM user.

  3. Under the user's permissions, in addition to the ReadOnlyAccess policy that is listed, create an Inline Policy.

  4. Select Custom Policy and enter a Policy Name.

  5. Customize permissions by editing the policy, replacing the Resource example (shown in red below) with the Role ARN that you copied to the clipboard, enclosed in straight quotes.

    {"Statement":[
      {
        "Effect": "Allow",
        "Action": "sts:AssumeRole",
        "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/accessForAPTARECollector"
      }
     ]
    }
  6. The AWS configuration is now complete. Proceed with the Data Collection Configuration.

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