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Before you begin, check your provider's documentation and pricing. You will need credentials to access the cloud provider's API. We provide basic guides (see Obtain public cloud credentials) but you should always check with your provider. 

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  1. In the bottom left corner of the screen, select the User icon, to open the User icon menu

  2. Select Edit credentials

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  3. Select Public

  4. Select the Provider

    If your provider requires different credentials for specific regions, select the region, such as, Amazon (CHINA)

    . There may be a separate provider for regions requiring different credentials

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To add credentials for compute with optional billing and pricing:

  1. Enter your credentials to access the cloud provider's API for compute features Access key ID:

    this may be a Username, API access key ID, Subscription ID, etc:For Azure

    1. For AWS, enter the Access key ID

    2. For Azure standard accounts and CSP customers, the format is subscription-id#app-id#tenant-id

    3. For GCP the format is project_id#client_id#client_email#private_key_id

    4. For OCI the format is tenancy#user#fingerprint

    5. Secret access key: this may be an API key, App secret key, API credential, App password, etc.

  2. Optionally, for Amazon, GCP, or OCI billing, select Also use for pricing

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  1. For Azure, to add billing credentials

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  1. , go to Pricing.
    See Add public cloud pricing credentials for a tenant

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To add credentials for billing only, for a customer of an Azure CSP or an Amazon organization do these steps.

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with no compute access:

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  • For a customer of an Azure CSP or an Amazon organization do these steps.

    1. Enter the Access key ID as follows:

      • For Azure, the format is subscription-id##tenant-id

      • For AWS, the format is account-id

    2. For the Secret access key, you can enter a random string

    3. Click Add account. Abiquo will validate your credentials with the cloud provider before saving them.

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The platform will display the cloud provider credentials in the Current credentials area.

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