Amazon Web Services (AWS) Import Resources and Permissions
SmartDraw lets you import your AWS information to automatically generate a diagram. Learn more about that here.
The resources types we import from AWS Cloud Control API are:
To import and visualize your AWS resources within SmartDraw, the following are required:
- User in IAM with appropriate permissions set
- Access key or Role for each user. If you need a primer on how to set up permissions, read this article.
- Secret token for user, if using Access Key.
We recommend using the built-in ReadOnlyAccess permission set for best results.
If you wish to use a more limited set, you can here are the minimum permissions needed for the IAM user for the integration to work. You may modify as needed.