Connect your linked accounts

This article describes how to integrate your linked accounts with Anodot for us to create recommendations for each linked account.
In this process, you'll assign a read-only policy to each linked account and associate it with a role.

Ways to Connect Linked Accounts:

1. Connect All Linked Accounts - Current & Future  (Recommended)
   Use a Stack in your payer account that grants read-only permissions to all current and future linked accounts under your payer account. This ensures any new linked accounts will automatically be included without requiring any action.
   Note: in case some of your linked accounts already have the needed permissions this option is not relevant for you. Instead, we recommend using the second option.
   
2. Connect All current available Linked Accounts Under the Payer Account
   This StackSet will propagate the necessary read-only permissions across all linked accounts under the payer account.
   Note: New linked accounts created in the future will need to be connected manually.
   
   
3. Connect Linked Accounts Based on Tagging
   Create a Stack in your payer account that applies read-only permissions to linked accounts based on specific tags. This way, only accounts with the defined tag will be connected to Anodot.
   
   
4. Connect Each Linked Account manually via the Anodot UI
   Best suited for small accounts.
   You can manually connect each linked account from within the Anodot interface by assigning read-only permissions for each account.

Connect All Linked Accounts (Including Future Accounts)

1. From Anodot's main page click on Account.
   
   
   
   
2. Click on the Cloud Accounts tab and copy the external ID value of your account.
   
   
   
   
3. Log into the AWS console for the payer account: https://aws.amazon.com/
4. Navigate to CloudFormation > Stacks and click on Create Stack.
   
   
   
   
5. For the Prepare template, select the Choose an existing template. Then, select Upload a template file, upload the following .yaml file, and click on Next.
   
   

11. Choose a name for the Stack, enter the external ID you copied in step #2, and click on Next.
    
    
    
    
12. Click on Next.
13. On Anodot, navigate to Accounts > Linked account page, and click on Validate All Connection to validate a successful connection.
    
    
    
    
14. You will start seeing recommendations the next time your invoice runs (which occurs automatically every day).
    

Connect All Linked Accounts Under the Payer Account

1. From Anodot's main page click on Account.
   
   
   
   
2. Click on the Cloud Accounts tab and copy the external ID value of your account.
   
   
3. Log into the AWS console for the payer account: https://aws.amazon.com/
4. Navigate to CloudFormation > StackSet and click on Create StackSet.
   
   
   
   
5. Use the following template URL and click on Next.
   https://pileus-cloudformation-public.s3.amazonaws.com/PileuseOnboardingCFT.json
   
   
   
   
6. Name the StackSet, enter the External ID you copied in Step 2, and Click on Next.
   
   
   
   
7. Enter any tags and select Inactive or Active execution.
   
   
   
   
8. Configure the deployment options (setting a region is required) and click on Next.
   
   
   
   
9. Review your settings, and click Submit.
10. On Anodot, navigate to Accounts > Linked account page, and click on Validate All Connection to validate a successful connection.
    
    
    
    
11. You will start seeing recommendations the next time your invoice runs (which occurs automatically every day).

Connect Linked Accounts Based on Tagging

1. From Anodot's main page click on Account.
   
   
   
   
2. Click on the Cloud Accounts tab and copy the external ID value of your account.
   
   
   
   
3. Log into the AWS console for the payer account: https://aws.amazon.com/
4. Navigate to CloudFormation > Stacks and click on Create Stack.
   
   
   
   
5. For the Prepare template, select the Choose an existing template. Then, select Upload a template file, upload the following .yaml file, and click on Next.
   
   
   
   
6. Choose a name for the Stack, enter the external ID you copied in step #2, and click on Next.
   
   
   
   
7. Click on Next.
8. For each linked account that you want us to apply the policy with permissions for, add the following tag:
   

   Anodot: onboarded
   

9. On Anodot, navigate to Accounts > Linked account page, and click on Validate All Connection to validate a successful connection.
   
   
   
   
10. The next time your invoice runs (which occurs automatically every day), you will start seeing recommendations.
    
    
    

Manual Connection for Each Linked Account via the Anodot UI

1. In the AWS Console, login to the linked account that you would like to connect to Anodot Cost.
2. On the Anodot Cost platform, click your username (in the top right corner) and click Account.
3. Click the Linked Accounts tab.
   
   
   
   
4. Click Open AWS platform to connect in the relevant linked account row.
   
   
   You are redirected to a CloudFormation stack creation page, which will create the Anodot Cost role for your linked account.
5. In the AWS Console, click Create stack.
   
   
   
   
6. On the Anodot Cost platform, click on Validate Connection to validate a successful connection.
   Note: In case you want to connect multiple linked accounts you can click on Validate All Connections
   
   
   You should now see that the Verification Status is connected, as shown below.