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Manage AWS accounts

When you configure CloudWatch metric or AWS resource metadata scrape jobs, you must connect to an AWS account, which you can use across multiple scrape jobs. An account includes an Amazon Resource Name (ARN), a list of AWS regions, and, optionally, a name. After you have created an AWS account, you can update that account or remove it.

View accounts

To view all AWS accounts associated with your Grafana instance:

1. Open your Grafana Cloud portal.
2. Expand Observability > Cloud Provider in the main menu of your Grafana Cloud stack.
3. Select AWS.
4. Click the Configuration tab.
5. Click the AWS accounts card.

Create an account

Creating an AWS account and connecting it to your Grafana instance is part of the process for configuring a CloudWatch metric or AWS resource metadata scrape job. For instructions to create an AWS account and connect it to your Grafana instance refer to Configure CloudWatch metric scrape.

Edit an account

You may need to edit an AWS account’s details such as its name, ARN, or AWS Regions.

To edit an account:

1. Go to the AWS accounts page.
2. At the row of the account, click on the menu icon in the last column of the table and select Edit.
3. In the Edit account view, make your changes.
4. Click Save.

If an account is associated with scrape jobs, you can click the See associated scrape jobs link in the warning message at the top of the Edit account page to view the scrape jobs.

Delete an account

You can only delete an account if the account has no scrape jobs associated with it. Otherwise, you must first delete its scrape jobs.

Delete an account with no scrape jobs

Use either of these two methods to delete an account with no scrape jobs associated with it from the AWS Accounts page:

• Click the menu icon next to the account, select Delete, then click Delete to confirm.
• Click the name of the account to view the account Details page. Then click on Actions and Delete.

Delete an account with scrape jobs

To delete an account with associated scrape jobs:

1. Go to the AWS account page.
2. Click the menu icon next to the account, select Delete, then click Go to scrape jobs list.
3. On the account Details page, select all scrape jobs, and click Delete.
4. On the window, click Delete.
5. After the window is closed, click Actions, then click Delete.