Add credentials for public cloud
This page describes how to add credentials for public cloud for your own tenant, with a standard account or as a customer of a reseller.
To add credentials to a different enterprise, 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
User icon menuSelect Public
Select the Provider. There may be a separate provider for regions requiring different credentials
To add credentials for compute with optional billing and pricing:
Enter the Access key ID:
For AWS, enter the Access key ID
For Azure standard accounts and CSP customers, the format is
subscription-id#app-id#tenant-id
For GCP the format is
project_id#client_id#client_email#private_key_id
For OCI the format is
tenancy#user#fingerprint
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.
For Azure, to add billing credentials, go to Pricing.
See Add public cloud pricing credentials for a tenant
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.
Enter the Access key ID as follows:
For Azure, the format is
subscription-id##tenant-id
For AWS, the format is
account-id
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
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