Add credentials for public cloud

This page describes how to add credentials for public cloud for your own tenant.

To add credentials for a different tenant, go to Users → edit an enterprise → Credentials.
See Add public cloud credentials for a tenant

Your enterprise (cloud tenant) should have its own public cloud account or subscription for each cloud provider, and it cannot share these with any other tenants.

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.

Privileges: Manage provider credentials

To add public cloud credentials for your tenant:

In the bottom left corner of the screen, select the User icon, to open the User icon menu
Select Edit credentials
Select Public
Select the Provider
1. If your provider requires different credentials for specific regions, select the region, such as, Amazon (CHINA)

To add credentials for compute with optional billing and pricing:

Enter your credentials to access the cloud provider's API for compute features
1. Access key ID: this may be a Username, API access key ID, Subscription ID, etc:
  1. For Azure the format is subscription-id#app-id#tenant-id
  2. For GCP the format is project_id#client_id#client_email#private_key_id
  3. For OCI the format is tenancy#user#fingerprint
2. Secret access key: this may be an API key, App secret key, API credential, App password, etc.
Optionally, for Amazon, GCP, or OCI billing, select Also use for pricing.

To add billing credentials for Azure, see Add public cloud pricing credentials for a tenant

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

For a standalone AWS customer account, do the steps at Add a customer AWS account for billing only instead.

If you do not require compute access.
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
Click Add account. Abiquo will validate your credentials with the cloud provider before saving them.

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

If a provider does not display in the list, check with your system administrator.
For vCloud Director the administrator must allow your tenant to access a region for it to display in the Provider list