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In order to enable the desired access to your AWS resources, you need to create at least one AWS Connector. You can access this functionality via the AWS Connector management screen.
Create/Edit Connector
Clicking Create Connector (or Edit later on) opens the Edit AWS Connector dialog
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Configuring an AWS Connector with (optional) IAM Policy and JIRA group selection
Once you have added at least one account (see above) you can configure an arbitrary number of AWS Connectors using these. A Connector requires an arbitrary name according to your needs, the account to use and an (optional) IAM Policy, see Overview of Policies. You can reuse existing policies already in use in your organization or create new policies tailored to your use case via the AWS Policy Generator.
While not required, you might want to grant one or more of your Atlassian user groups the permission to use the AWS Connector (if no group is selected, only administrators will be able to use it).
IAM Policy Examples
Clicking on 'IAM Policy Examples' allows you to select from a few example policies to ease getting started (just click one to copy it to the policy field) - a link to the AWS Policy Generator is also provided:
Maximum number of seconds that temporary credentials based on this connector can be valid - leave empty to use AWS default values