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Cross4Alert

To integrate the Amazon Web Services (AWS) provider to use the Cross4Alert service you are required to perform some operations in AWS. The images attached below will guide you. Please follow the instructions below.

Getting Credentials for Cross4Alert​

1. User Creation​

  1. Go to AWS Console and log in to your account.

  2. After loged in to your account, go to the search bar and search for IAM.

  3. Click IAM under Services.

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AWS Step 2-3

  1. Click Users on the left and then click Create user.
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AWS Step 4

  1. Click Next button after entering a User name. Optionally you can provide user access to the AWS Management Console.
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AWS Step 5

2. Permission Assignment​

  1. In the opened screen, it is necessary to grant the user the required permissions. Therefore, click on the Attach Policies Directly button. After this point, you have two options to proceed. The first option is to manually add the permissions listed below one by one. The second option is to select only the AdministratorAccess permission, granting full authorization.

    Manuel (Recommended)Full Access
    IAMReadOnlyAccessAdministratorAccess
    AmazonSNSFullAccess
    CloudWatchFullAccessV2
    CloudWatchReadOnlyAccess
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For more detailed information about the Policies and permissions you can check AWS Documentation.

  1. Click on the Next button at the bottom of the page.
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AWS Step 7

  1. After verifying the presence of the necessary permissions under the Permission Summary tab on the opened page, finally, click the Create User button.
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AWS Step 8

Critical Step

You need to create an inline policy by following through guidance below so that you use those credentials properly.

3. Inline Policy Creation​

  1. From the list of users, click on the user that you have created.
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AWS Step 9

  1. On the page that you see, click on the Add Permissions and Create Inline Policy.
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AWS Step 10

  1. Click JSON button on the right top.
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AWS Step 11

  1. Then click on the JSON button on the page that opens. Delete the existing code and copy-paste the following code in its place. And then Click Next button.
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
	{
	"Sid": "Statement1",
	"Effect": "Allow",
	"Action": [
	  "resource-explorer-2:Search",
	  "resource-explorer-2:GetDefaultView",
	  "tag:GetResources",
	  "servicequotas:ListServices",
	  "servicequotas:ListServiceQuotas"
	],
	"Resource": [
		"*"
	]
	}
]
}
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AWS Step 12

  1. On the page that appers, Enter a Policy Name then Click Create Policy button.
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AWS Step 13

After completing these steps, you should have successfully created the user with the specified permissions.

4. Key Creation​

  1. From the list of users, click on the user that you have created.
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AWS Step 15

  1. In the relevant user page, go to the Security Credentials tab and click Create access key under Access Keys section.
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AWS Step 16

  1. Choose a proper use case. In this case, we chose Commond Line Interface (CLI). Then click Next button.
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AWS Step 17

  1. You can add Description tag value, it's optional. After that, click Create access key.
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AWS Step 18

  1. CRITICAL STEP

    From the screen that you see, copy and paste your Access Key and Secret Access Key where you can access them later, you will need them in our console.

  2. When you are sure that the credentials are accessible, you can click the Done button.

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AWS Step 20