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AWS

Connect Cased to AWS to manage and monitor your cloud infrastructure

Setup Steps

  1. In your AWS Management Console go to the IAM service

  2. Create IAM Policy under Policies create a new policy in the JSON editor.

  3. Paste this JSON into the policy editor and name is CasedPolicy.

    CasedPolicy
    {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "autoscaling:Describe*",
            "cloudformation:Describe*",
            "cloudformation:ListStacks",
            "cloudfront:ListDistributions",
            "cloudtrail:DescribeTrails",
            "cloudtrail:GetTrail",
            "cloudtrail:GetTrailStatus",
            "cloudtrail:LookupEvents",
            "cloudwatch:GetMetricData",
            "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
            "cloudwatch:GetMetricWidgetImage",
            "cloudwatch:ListMetrics",
            "dynamodb:DescribeTable",
            "dynamodb:ListTables",
            "ec2:DescribeInstances",
            "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces",
            "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
            "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
            "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
            "ecs:DescribeClusters",
            "ecs:DescribeServices",
            "ecs:DescribeTaskDefinition",
            "ecs:DescribeTasks",
            "ecs:ListClusters",
            "ecs:ListServices",
            "ecs:ListTasks",
            "ecr:DescribeRepositories",
            "ecr:GetLifecyclePolicy",
            "ecr:GetRegistryScanningConfiguration",
            "ecr:GetRepositoryPolicy",
            "ecr:ListImages",
            "ecr:ListTagsForResource",
            "eks:ListClusters",
            "eks:DescribeCluster",
            "eks:ListNodegroups",
            "elasticache:Describe*",
            "elasticache:ListTagsForResource",
            "elasticbeanstalk:DescribeEnvironments",
            "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers",
            "iam:GetPolicy",
            "iam:GetPolicyVersion",
            "iam:GetRole",
            "iam:ListAttachedRolePolicies",
            "iam:ListPolicies",
            "iam:ListRoles",
            "iam:ListUsers",
            "kms:DescribeKey",
            "kms:ListKeys",
            "lambda:ListFunctions",
            "logs:DescribeLogStreams",
            "logs:DescribeLogGroups",
            "logs:GetLogEvents",
            "logs:FilterLogEvents",
            "rds:DescribeDBInstances",
            "rds:DescribeDBSnapshots",
            "rds:DescribeEvents",
            "rds:ListTagsForResource",
            "s3:GetBucketLifecycleConfiguration",
            "s3:GetBucketLocation",
            "s3:GetBucketPublicAccessBlock",
            "s3:GetBucketTagging",
            "s3:GetBucketVersioning",
            "s3:GetEncryptionConfiguration",
            "s3:GetObject",
            "s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
            "s3:ListBucket",
            "sns:ListSubscriptions",
            "sns:ListTopics",
            "sqs:ListQueues"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        }
      ]
    }

  4. Create IAM Role

    • Open IAM in AWS Console
    • Go to Roles → Create role
    • Choose “AWS account” as trusted entity type
    • Enter Cased account ID: 495860673956
    • Attach the policy you created
    • Name the role (e.g., CasedRole)

  5. Almost done! Configure Cased:

    • Copy your Role ARN from the role summary page
    • Format: arn:aws:iam::<YOUR_ACCOUNT_ID>:role/CasedRole
    • Paste the ARN in Cased’s AWS connection settings
    • Select your AWS region