Catalog

Introduction

  • Centrally manage catalogs of approved IT services on AWS for governance. Ex:

    • VM images

    • Servers

    • Software

    • DB

    • Regions

    • IP address ranges

    • Not for: AMI id

  • Helps users to quickly deploy only the approved IT services

  • For two parts:

    • Admin

      • Define compliant prodcut portfolio / IAM with CloudFormation templates to define who can use a certain kind of services.

      • Use TagOptions to provide the users a list from which they can select their cost center.

      • Activate the cost center tag in the Billing Console.

    • Users

      • Are going to see the product list they are authorized to use, then provision services which are properly tagged / configured.

Feature

  • Can integrate with AWS ServiceNow (enterprise service management platform, "self-service portal")

  • License management for applications deployed on AWS

    • A Lambda trigger is not currently available for Service Catalog product deployments.

      • Have Amazon CloudWatch detect when a user deploys a Service Catalog product.

      • Launch an AWS Step Functions process to increment license counts in the DB table

      • Send notifications when overage thresholds are met

  • For Service Catalog products to be successfully launched

    • A launch constraint must be assigned and have sufficient permission to deploy the product

    • the user must have the same required permissions

PreviousManagement ToolsNextCloudTrail

Last updated