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Welcome to your first step towards cloud efficiency and savings with Infrastructure Optimizer. By following our setup checklist, you'll enable Infrastructure Optimizer to operate smoothly in your environment.

Environment Prerequisites Overview

Component

Section Link

VPC

Network

Certificate

Security

IAM Roles

PermissionsEKS Cluster

Cluster Requirements

Network
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Network
Network

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titleNetwork Checklist

Component

Requirements

VPC

  • It contains at least one private subnet

NAT Gateway

  • The connectivity type is public

Security
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Security
Security

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titleSecurity Checklist

Component

Details

SSH Key

  • This will be used to attach to the Management Server

Trusted Certificate

  • To make the installation accessible to your organization

Compute
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Compute
Compute

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titleCompute Platform Checklist

Component

Requirements

Operating System

  • Using Linux variants

Permissions
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Permissions
Permissions

We understand that cloud control and security are essential to you. In order to To install Infrastructure Optimizer and start saving right away, we need your help to set up the right permissions for Infrastructure Optimizer to operate. For seamless installation and integration with AWS services, you need the following IAM role is required for the user who performs the operationsto operate the Infrastructure Optimizer:

  • User IAM Role

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titleLeast privilege IAM policies of users

Least privilege IAM policies

Explanation

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languagejson
{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:RunInstances",
                "ec2:DescribeInstances",
                "ec2:DescribeInstanceTypes",
                "ec2:DescribeInstanceStatus",
                "ec2:StopInstances",
                "ec2:TerminateInstances",
                "ec2:ModifyInstanceAttribute",
                "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
                "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
                "ec2:DescribeVpcAttribute",
                "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
                "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress",
                "ec2:CreateSecurityGroup",
                "ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupIngress",
                "ec2:DeleteSecurityGroup",
                "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroupRules",
                "ec2:CreateTags",
                "ec2:DescribeKeyPairs",
                "ec2:DescribeImages",
                "ec2:DescribeImageAttribute",
                "ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones",
                "ec2:DescribeAccountAttributes",
                "ec2:DescribeRouteTables",
                "ec2:DescribeNetworkAcls",
                "ec2:DescribeAddresses",
                "ec2:DescribeDhcpOptions",
                "ec2:DescribeSnapshots"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "s3:GetObject",
                "s3:PutObject"
            ],
            "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::cf-template*"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "cloudformation:CreateStack",
                "cloudformation:UpdateStack",
                "cloudformation:CreateUploadBucket",
                "cloudformation:DescribeStackEvents",
                "cloudformation:DescribeStacks",
                "cloudformation:GetTemplateSummary",
                "cloudformation:ListStacks",
                "cloudformation:ListStackResources",
                "cloudformation:DeleteStack"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "iam:CreateRole",
                "iam:DeleteRole",
                "iam:ListRoles",
                "iam:TagRole",
                "iam:PutRolePolicy",
                "iam:DeleteRolePolicy",
                "iam:GetRole",
                "iam:ListAttachedRolePolicies",
                "iam:CreateInstanceProfile",
                "iam:AddRoleToInstanceProfile",
                "iam:RemoveRoleFromInstanceProfile",
                "iam:DeleteInstanceProfile",
                "iam:ListPolicies",
                "iam:PassRole",
                "iam:ListOpenIDConnectProviders",
                "iam:GetOpenIDConnectProvider",
                "iam:ListEntitiesForPolicy",
                "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
                "iam:ListInstanceProfiles",
                "iam:ListInstanceProfilesForRole",
                "iam:AttachRolePolicy" 
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "eks:DescribeCluster",
                "eks:ListClusters",
                "eks:UpdateClusterConfig",
                "eks:UpdateClusterVersion",
                "eks:CreateNodegroup",
                "eks:DescribeNodegroup",
                "eks:ListNodegroups",
                "eks:UpdateNodegroupConfig",
                "eks:UpdateNodegroupVersion",
                "eks:DescribeAddon",
                "eks:DescribeAddonVersions",
                "eks:ListAddons",
                "eks:UpdateAddon",
                "eks:AccessKubernetesApi",
                "eks:ListAccessPolicies",
                "eks:AssociateAccessPolicy",
                "eks:ListIdentityProviderConfigs",
                "eks:DescribeAccessEntry",
                "eks:ListPodIdentityAssociations",
                "eks:ListAssociatedAccessPolicies",
                "eks:CreateAccessEntry"  
            ],
            "_comment": "Change the below Resource to specific cluster - arn:aws:eks:region:account-id:cluster/cluster-name",
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ssm:ListAssociations",
                "ssm:GetParametersByPath"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

1. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)

  • Instance Management

    • ec2:RunInstances

    • ec2:DescribeInstances

    • ec2:DescribeInstanceTypes

    • ec2:DescribeInstanceStatus

    • ec2:StopInstances

    • ec2:TerminateInstances

    • ec2:ModifyInstanceAttribute

  • Network and Security

    • ec2:DescribeSubnets

    • ec2:DescribeVpcs

    • ec2:DescribeVpcAttribute

    • ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups

    • ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress

    • ec2:CreateSecurityGroup

    • ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupIngress

    • ec2:DeleteSecurityGroup

    • ec2:DescribeSecurityGroupRules

  • Resource Tagging and Metadata

    • ec2:CreateTags

  • Others

    • ec2:DescribeKeyPairs

    • ec2:DescribeImages

    • ec2:DescribeImageAttribute

    • ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones

    • ec2:DescribeAccountAttributes

    • ec2:DescribeRouteTables

    • ec2:DescribeNetworkAcls

    • ec2:DescribeAddresses

    • ec2:DescribeDhcpOptions

    • ec2:DescribeSnapshots

2. Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

  • Object Operations

    • s3:GetObject

    • s3:PutObject

3. Amazon CloudFormation

  • Stack Operations

    • cloudformation:CreateStack

    • cloudformation:UpdateStack

    • cloudformation:CreateUploadBucket

    • cloudformation:DescribeStackEvents

    • cloudformation:DescribeStacks

    • cloudformation:GetTemplateSummary

    • cloudformation:ListStacks

    • cloudformation:ListStackResources

    • cloudformation:DeleteStack

4. AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management)

  • Role Management

    • iam:CreateRole

    • iam:DeleteRole

    • iam:ListRoles

    • iam:TagRole

    • iam:PutRolePolicy

    • iam:DeleteRolePolicy

    • iam:GetRole

    • iam:ListAttachedRolePolicies

    • iam:AttachRolePolicy

  • Instance Profile Operations

    • iam:CreateInstanceProfile

    • iam:AddRoleToInstanceProfile

    • iam:RemoveRoleFromInstanceProfile

    • iam:DeleteInstanceProfile

  • Policy Management

    • iam:ListPolicies

    • iam:PassRole

  • Other

    • iam:ListOpenIDConnectProviders

    • iam:GetOpenIDConnectProvider

    • iam:ListEntitiesForPolicy

    • iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole

    • iam:ListInstanceProfiles

    • iam:ListInstanceProfilesForRole

5. Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)

  • Cluster Operations

    • eks:DescribeCluster

    • eks:ListClusters

    • eks:UpdateClusterConfig

    • eks:UpdateClusterVersion

  • Nodegroup Operations

    • eks:CreateNodegroup

    • eks:DescribeNodegroup

    • eks:ListNodegroups

    • eks:UpdateNodegroupConfig

    • eks:UpdateNodegroupVersion

  • Addon Operations

    • eks:DescribeAddon

    • eks:DescribeAddonVersions

    • eks:ListAddons

    • eks:UpdateAddon

  • API Access and Policy Management

    • eks:AccessKubernetesApi

    • eks:ListAccessPolicies

    • eks:AssociateAccessPolicy

    • eks:ListIdentityProviderConfigs

    • eks:DescribeAccessEntry

    • eks:ListPodIdentityAssociations

    • eks:ListAssociatedAccessPolicies

    • eks:CreateAccessEntry

6. AWS SSM (System Manager)

  • Association Operations

    • ssm:ListAssociations

    • ssm:GetParametersByPath

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