SecureCloud on Amazon AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Parent topic

SecureCloud now supports devices with permissions set through Amazon AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).
To provision an IAM-enabled storage device:
  1. Log on to the AWS IAM management console using an IAM-enabled user account.
  2. Create a role with IAM-enabled permission.
  3. Launch a new instance via Amazon EC2 with the IAM-enabled role.
SecureCloud links to the Amazon AWS Meta-data Server to verify whether an instance is IAM-enabled. If so, the Configuration Tool obtains the Access Key ID and Secret Access Key in the background, and then proceeds to the next provisioning process (that is, get account ID, SecureCloud console URL, and provisioning passphrase). You no longer have to manually specify the required Amazon credentials—which you are used to doing when provisioning devices hosted by instances running in Amazon EC2.
The following table describes the differences between configuring an Amazon AWS EC2 and AWS IAM device.

Provisioning an Amazon EC2 and AWS IAM device

Requirement
Amazon EC2
Amazon AWS IAM
CSP category
2. Amazon-AWS
L > amazonaws_iam.zip
AWS credentials
  • Access Key ID
  • Secret Access Key
 Not required
SecureCloud console credentials
  • Account ID
  • SecureCloud console URL
  • Provisioning passphrase