Connect to AWS account

In this milestone, you’ll establish the connection between your AWS account and Grafana Cloud using the IAM role you created in the previous step. This connection enables Grafana Cloud to securely access your AWS metrics and begin monitoring your resources.

To connect your AWS account to Grafana Cloud provider AWS, complete the following steps:

1. On the Create new account page in Grafana Cloud provider, for Configure the integration, enter your AWS account information:

   1. Enter a name for your account in the Account name field.

      Give your account a unique name that contains only alphanumeric characters, dashes, and underscores.

      For example, enter aws-ec2-account.

   2. Paste the role ARN you copied from the previous milestone in the ARN field.

      For example, enter arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/GrafanaCloudMonitoringRole.

   3. Select all regions where the AWS resources you want to monitor are located in the AWS Regions field.

      For example, select us-east-1.

2. Click Add account to complete the setup.

In your next milestone, you’ll create a scrape job to customize metric collection for specific AWS services.