AWS Integration

Partner accounts

Add a partner account for each hierarchy of tenants

All regions

Amazon may require separate credentials for groups of regions.
For example, for regions in China the user will need separate credentials and they should select the appropriate provider, such as Amazon (CHINA).

Hardware profiles

Onboard hardware profile families and types

Pricing

Onboard prices for hardware profiles, manage a markup, and use prices in estimates, usage metering, and billing

Billing dashboard

Obtain and display the provider billing data including the latest bills and estimated bill.
See Hybrid for examples, and for configuration instructions see Display cloud provider billing data . 

Billing

Incorporate AWS billing data into a single bill for the multi-cloud platform

Configure and remove VMs

When you create a VM, select the hardware profile

Reconfigure VMs

Power on VM

Power off VM

Reset VM

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Pause and resume VM

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Storage

• Volumes are EBS disks. Users can onboard and create volumes, and attach them to VMs as auxiliary disks

• You can onboard a VM with delete on termination disks

• EBS Encryption is supported

See Abiquo and AWS storage

Take a VM snapshot

The VM must be powered off in Abiquo, although the actual VM is not powered off.  
You can only create an instance (private EBS image) from a VM using an EBS image.

Remote access

Open a console window to access your VM using your SSH key registered in Abiquo

Create and delete networks

Users can specify the network address space, and create private and public subnets

Create and delete VPNs

From private cloud (NSX-T) to AWS

Create and delete VPCs

Create and manage firewall policies

AWS security groups

Use Chef

Enterprise Chef or your own server

Use Chef attributes

VM bootstrap scripts

Users can work with shell scripts or cloud-init to automate VM configuration  

VM variables

The variables are stored on the VM filesystem in ~/vm-variables.rc

Load balancing

Abiquo supports Classic load balancers and Application load balancers

Import and synchronize

• To onboard resources, the public cloud region must be created in AWS and enterprise must have credentials registered

• Entities that you can onboard and synchronize: VPCs, VMs, networks, firewalls, load balancers

VM monitoring and metrics

With Abiquo monitoring and metrics server

Deploy AMI from AWS marketplace

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Abiquo cannot deploy an AMI from the AWS marketplace because Abiquo cannot display the EULA to the end user.
However, you can deploy in the Amazon cloud native interface and onboard in the platform.

Import VM template
from private cloud datacenter

Use compatible templates prepared according to provider instructions. See VM Template Mobility

Automated actions

Abiquo can run action plans on VMs

Autoscaling

Abiquo can automatically clone VMs or undeploy VMs to match your changing application needs