Setting Up an AWS IAM User or IAM Role

Turbonomic connects to your AWS environment through an IAM user or IAM role.

Refer to the following table for guidance on the IAM identity that you need to set up based on your Turbonomic deployment.

Turbonomic Deployment

IAM Identity to Set Up

Deployed on premises using an OVA or VHD image

IAM user

Deployed and maintained by your Turbonomic representative (also known as Turbonomic SaaS)

IAM role or IAM user

Deployed to Kubernetes in AWS through Amazon EKS or Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)

IAM role or IAM user

Deployed to Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud

IAM user

For best practices on managing IAM identities, see the AWS documentation.

Next Step

For connection through an IAM user

Set up an IAM user in AWS. For details, see this topic.

For connection through an IAM role

Set up an IAM role in AWS.

  • For Turbonomic SaaS, see this topic.

  • For Amazon EKS or ROSA, see this topic.