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How to Discover EC2, ECR, ECS, ELB, S3 Bucket, and RDS Services

This task describes how to discover two low-level AWS services, using a discovery protocol called AWS Protocol. This discovery process enables you to discover information about running node instances and their configuration (including information about AMI), corresponding block storage, and snapshots with information about regions and zones. All reported topology is in the scope of the Amazon account in which the discovery user is registered.

  • Support using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users in the AWS credential.
  • Except AWS GovCloud, the permission for IAM Service is not required.
  • The AWS Discovery only discovers those AWS components with users' permission.

This task contains the following steps: