How to Create a New Data Source and Apply The Integration | Stratusphere™

Prerequisites:

• AWS user account login(s) with administrative access to the AWS Payer account for your AWS Organization(s).
• Stratusphere™ FinOps user account login with the Admin or Owner role.

Instructions:

1. Log into your AWS Payer account as an administrative user.

2. Ensure you are in the us-east-1 region.

3. Go to the AWS Organizations service and find the OU ID you want to be in scope for the integration (we recommend the “Root” user ID - e.g. “r-fwxf”). Copy this ID as it will be used in a later step.

    

    

    

4. Copy the Account ID for your AWS Payer account into your clipboard.

5. Log into Stratusphere™ FinOps as a user with at least admin rights for the organization.

6. Go to Company Settings > Data Sources

    

    

7. If you are onboarding a single AWS account without an AWS organization, you will not have OU IDs to add, and you should check the Standalone Account checkbox before clicking Create Data Source.

   After clicking the New Data Source button, paste in your AWS Organization payer account id into the Payer Account ID field. Optionally, you can add Organization IDs to the Organization Unit ID(s) field (this will usually be your root organization id; e.g. “r-fwxf” from the example earlier).

    

   1. If you are onboarding a single AWS account without an AWS organization, you will not have OU IDs to add, and you should check the Standalone Account checkbox before clicking Create Data Source.

1. You should now see a cloud data source with the status of “Incomplete”.

2. Click the Generate Install Link button.

    

3. Verify the prerequisites, check the acknowledgement, and copy the install link.

    

4. Paste the link into the browser where you are signed into your AWS Payer organization. You will be to a CloudFormation “Create Stack” page.

    

5. The Organization Unit ID(s) that you entered in the form will populate in the “What organization units would you like included?” parameter field (e.g. “r-fwxf”). Check the box to acknowledge IAM resources will be created, and click Create Stack

    

6. You should now see the CloudFormation stack with the “UPDATE_IN_PROGRESS” status.

    

7. Wait until the status is “UPDATE_COMPLETE”. Once this is done, your integration is complete! You should will start seeing data in your Stratusphere™ FinOps account within 24 hours. Your integration status will also update from “Incomplete” to “Healthy” after the first successful ingestion.

    

8. [Optional] Open up a support ticket for backfilling your data 

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