AWS features table

AlWS features offered in the public cloud integration.

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)".

AWS Feature	Support	Comments
Configure and remove VMs		When you deploy, you’ll 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 After users detach auxiliary disks from VMs, the synchronization process will make them available in the virtual datacenter Users can move disks between virtual datacenters and release them to the region When users undeploy or delete a VM, the synchronization process will make auxiliary disks available in the virtual datacenter Onboarding a VM with delete on termination disks When you undeploy or delete the VM, the platform will destroy these disks. When you detach the disks from the deployed VM, the platform will synchronize them as volumes in the virtual datacenter EBS Encryption You can create encrypted disks in the platform. If your AWS account has encryption set as default, all EBS disks will be created with encryption The platform will use encryption when you create an instance template of an encrypted disk, and when you create a VM from this template
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		Using your SSH key registered in Abiquo
Create and delete networks
Create and delete VPNs		From private cloud (NSX) to AWS
Create and delete VPCs
Create and manage firewall policies
Use Chef		Enterprise Chef or your own server
Use Chef attributes
VM bootstrap scripts
VM variables		The variables are stored on the virtual machine 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 Limitation: You can only display Classic VMs, you cannot onboard them 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
Dashboard billing widgets		The Hybrid tab of the Home dashboard view can display public cloud billing information, including the latest bills and estimated bill. See Hybrid and for configuration instructions see Display cloud provider billing data.