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Managing Cloud Accounts

This page explains how to add, view, update, and delete cloud service provider accounts in your ACTIVATE organization. Cloud accounts store the credentials that ACTIVATE uses to provision infrastructure and start clusters on your behalf.

Requiresorg:admin

Adding a Cloud Account

  1. Navigate to Organization > Cloud Accounts.
  2. Click Add Account.
  3. Enter a Name for the cloud account.
  4. Select your Cloud Service Provider from the dropdown menu.
  5. Fill in the provider-specific fields described below.
  6. Click + Add Account.
FieldDescription
Account IDA 12-digit number that uniquely identifies your AWS account. You can find this in the upper-right corner of the AWS Management Console.
GovCloudEnable this toggle if the account belongs to an AWS GovCloud region.
AWS Access Key IDThe access key ID for an IAM user or role with the required permissions.
AWS Secret Access KeyThe corresponding secret access key.

If you do not have an access key, see Managing access keys for IAM users in the AWS documentation.

After the account is created, ACTIVATE automatically validates that the provided credentials have sufficient permissions. You can check the validation status on the cloud account detail page.

Viewing Cloud Account Details

To view details for a cloud account, navigate to Organization > Cloud Accounts and click the account name.

The detail page displays the following information:

  • Principal — The primary credential identifier (for example, the AWS Access Key ID or the Google service account email).
  • Billing — Whether billing has been provisioned for this account, along with when billing data was last refreshed.
  • Permissions — Whether the credential has sufficient permissions. If permissions are insufficient, a link to the relevant preparation guide is provided.
  • Credentials last updated — When the credentials were last changed.
  • Shared with — Which groups or the entire organization have access to use this cloud account for network provisioning.
  • Networks — A table of all networks provisioned under this cloud account.

From the detail page you can also manage access permissions, provision or deprovision billing, and add networks.

Updating Credentials

To rotate or update the credentials on an existing cloud account:

  1. Navigate to Organization > Cloud Accounts and click the account name.
  2. Click Update Credentials in the action bar.
  3. Update the credential fields as needed. The account name and cloud service provider cannot be changed.
  4. Click Update Credentials to save.

After updating, ACTIVATE re-validates the credential permissions automatically.

Deleting a Cloud Account

Network Deprovisioning

Deleting a cloud account will deprovision all networks associated with the account. Ensure that no active clusters are running on those networks before proceeding.

To delete a cloud account:

  1. Navigate to Organization > Cloud Accounts.
  2. Click the delete icon next to the account you want to remove.
  3. Confirm the deletion in the dialog.

If billing has been provisioned for the account, deprovision billing before deleting the account.