AWS (Amazon Web Services)

Starting version 3.8.0 IP Fabric supports AWS API.

To add AWS to the discovery you will need an access key & secret access key from your AWS account.

Those keys can be found/generated under your account in the AWS dashboard.

Click on My Security Credentials and open Access keys tab.

To generate keys click on Create New Access Key and your keys will be generated. These access keys are available globally for all of yours AWS regions.

Copy those keys to the AWS API settings in your IP Fabric and don't forget to fill the region where the devices which you want to discover are.

Info

To ensure that IP Fabric can retrieve all the required data to model the AWS networks, a series of specific policies are required to be applied to the user account or role used for the API key. This file contains a JSON description of the required IAM policies.

AWS AssumeRole

From version 4.3, IP Fabric enables you to add AssumeRole to AWS API configuration. AssumeRole basically sets higher permissions that may be required for the discovery process in some environments.

AssumeRole is a standard way how to obtain additional rights when talking to AWS API. It returns a set of temporary security credentials that you can use to access AWS resources that you might not normally have access to. These temporary credentials consist of an access key ID, a secret access key, and a security token. Typically, you use AssumeRole within your account or for cross-account access. For more information about AssumeRole see AssumeRole - AWS Security Token Service.