Marketplace Installation - AMI Configuation

AMI Configuration and Stack Launch

Learn how to configure and launch custom AMIs efficiently in your application stack for enhanced performance and scalability.

Navigate to the AWS Marketplace and Search for FinOps Center (FinOps-in-a-Box or Enterprise Versions)

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ATTENTION: FinOps Center will be deployed from CloudFormation via S3. The below instruction will create an EC2 deployment via and AMI. Upon creation, the EC2 instance will create the bucket with the CloudFormation Scripts and JSON to be used in lunch in CloudFormation. Upon completion (when the bucket and packages are deployed) the instance that is created can be shut down. During the installation, a EC2 Role needs to be created with IAM Scope defined below to enable the creation and copying of files for the CloudFormation Installation.

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Launch through EC2

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Configure Instance to your companies standards. As note previously, the EC2 instanced provisioned is used to copy files to S3 for the FinOps Center deployment. We recommend a small instance (T3 Small) be used and can be shut down once the files are copied to S3.

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Prior to Launch → the IAM Instance Profile much have a Role with Policy to S3 Create Bucket and S3 Write Access for FinOps Center Installation Bucket. Add your AWS Account Number to below Policies.

Navigate to IAM and follow below Steps

Step 1: Create a New Role for EC2 or Validate an Existing Role has above Policy.

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JSON Policy - add account number of installed account.

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:CreateBucket",
        "s3:ListBucket"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:s3:::cdk-hnb659fds-assets-<accountnumber>-us-east-1"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:PutObject",
        "s3:PutObjectAcl"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:s3:::cdk-hnb659fds-assets-<accountnumber>-us-east-1*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}