AWS Environment Onboarding

AWS Environment Onboarding

Subscribe from AWS Marketplace


  •  Search for "Appranix" in the AWS Marketplace

  •  Subscribe for "Appranix Cloud Application Resilience" from the search result

  •  Subscribe to the service

  •  Register your account with Appranix


AWS Onboarding Prerequisites


For onboarding the AWS account in Appranix, a few roles and permissions in AWS should be enabled through an AWS stack.


Permissions Required


We need any one of the following permissions in AWS to create a Role Stack for Appranix.


  • AWSCloudFormationFullAccess

  • IAMFullAccess


Connect to AWS


Appranix requires a way to be authenticated and authorized to connect to the customer AWS account to provide resilience for their cloud application environment.
To enable access, proceed with the following steps.

  • After getting signed into your Appranix account, navigate to cloud connection and click on "Add cloud connection".


  • Fill in the Name & the Description for the connection, choosing AWS as the cloud provider. 


  • Proceed with the “NEXT“ button after choosing the required primary and recovery regions from the provided list.


  • In step 1, click "LAUNCH CLOUD CONNECTION ON THE AWS CONSOLE".




  • You will be redirected to your AWS console "create stack page" with a pre-configured stack. Create the stack by clicking next.




  • Once the stack creation is complete, click on stack details and from the outputs tab, copy the role ARN and paste it into the Appranix console.





  •  Select “CONNECT CLOUD” and wait for the cloud connection discovery sync to complete to see the discovered resources.






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