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

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  1. Enter the Access key ID:

    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
    For Azure, to add billing credentials, go to Pricing.
    See Add public cloud pricing credentials for a tenant

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To add credentials for billing only with no compute access:

  • For a standard AWS customer account, do the steps at Add a customer AWS account for billing only

  • 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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