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Create a cloud action - AWS

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Create an AWS cloud action to discover assets across your AWS environment. This lets Lansweeper inventory your cloud infrastructure—such as EC2 instances, RDS databases, and S3 buckets—so you can track resources, improve visibility, and maintain accurate asset data across hybrid environments.

Prerequisities

Create an AWS cloud action

  1. In your Lansweeper Site, go to Discovery > Actions.

  2. Select Create action.

  3. Select Cloud as the action type, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the cloud source.

  4. Select Create.

  5. Enter your Main account role ARN and Reading roles name.

  6. Select either Standalone account or Organization.

  7. Select List accounts.

  8. Choose the AWS accounts you want to add to the discovery action.

  9. Under Asset types, select which workloads to scan.

  10. Under Regions, select the regions to include in the scan.

  11. Optionally, select Add tag filter to include or exclude resources with specific tags.

  12. Select Create trigger.

  13. Select Instant to run at a scheduled time on select days. Enter the name, time, and days you prefer.

  14. Finally, select Save and finish.