Automatic Cloud Account Onboarding

Newly created cloud accounts are automatically detected and onboarded within 24 hours.

Automatic Cloud Account Onboarding enhances the cloud account onboarding experience. This functionality:

• Allows you to selectively enable or disable this behavior using the UI or Terraform.
• Provides visibility into newly added accounts and any additional setup required.

This capability reflects the dynamic nature of modern cloud environments and reduces the manual overhead required to maintain up-to-date infrastructure visibility.

Prerequisites

• AWS account with administrative privileges
• Sysdig Secure account with organization admin rights

Automatic Cloud Account Onboarding Steps

The following steps outline the process for automatic cloud account onboarding:

1. Log in to Sysdig Secure.
2. Go to Integrations > AWS.
3. Click Add AWS Account.
4. Select Organization.
5. Under Terraform, when you prepare for onboarding, go to the step Accounts to Onboard. You will see Automatic Onboarding & Offboarding enabled by default.

Testing Automatic Cloud Account Onboarding

Once you have completed onboarding of one account, you can go ahead and add multiple accounts to your organization. Any newly created AWS accounts that are in active state within the organization will be automatically detected and onboarded. You can verify this through Integrations > Cloud Accounts > AWS. The new accounts will be listed and the status should show as Connected.

For example, the following image shows the newly onboarded account:

Troubleshooting

Automatic Cloud Account Onboarding Fails for New AWS Accounts

When a new AWS account is created, it is automatically scraped by Sysdig regardless of its registration status. However, Automatic Cloud Account Onboarding fails for this newly created account if the account has not completed the registration process.

Workaround

Ensure that the newly added AWS account is fully registered with AWS.