Two methods to onboard AWS accounts

You can select from two methods to onboard AWS accounts to Cloud App Analyzer:

• Onboarding multiple accounts

  Note: Throughout the onboarding process, it is required to be logged into an AWS account that has access permissions to read through your company AWS Organization Management Service Account in order to automatically detect and onboard all the company accounts and organization(s) or organizational units (OUs). To learn more about the AWS Organizations terminology and concepts, see AWS Organizations terminology and concepts .

  Refer to the Two methods to onboard AWS accounts, if you want to see Account Names (in addition to Account ID) in the Cloud App Analyzer Dashboard.

• Onboarding a single account (used typically for Proof of Concepts and trials or if the customer prefers to avoid using an AWS Administrative account that has the required permissions for the company AWS Organization. In such a case, your admin will need to onboard each account individually as described in the wizard).

While the onboarding process varies between the two methods, both will lead to the same outcome. However, onboading using the single account method is much more time-consuming, especially with a large number of AWS accounts to be onboarded.