AWS features table

This table describes AWS features offered in the public cloud integration as well as Abiquo features that add important multi-cloud functionality.

See AWS Integration for full details of the Abiquo Amazon Web Services integration.

AWS Feature	Support	Comments
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	-
Pause and resume VM	-
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) 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
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	-	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