Connect Idealstack to AWS

Idealstack works by connecting to your AWS account over the AWS API and managing resources within it. To do this it requires a user within your AWS account with an Access Key and Secret that you enter when creating a new organization in Idealstack.

How to create the IAM user

  1. Click this button to deploy our cloudformation template which will create the user. This will open in a new tab:

Create Idealstack User

  1. Check the box "I acknowledge that AWS Cloudformation might create IAM resources" and then click the Create button

  2. Wait for a moment until the stack applies and changes status to CREATE_COMPLETE

  3. Then click on Outputs to see the AwsAccessKeyId and AwsSecretAccessKey

  4. Paste these details into the Idealstack system: