Importing Account Basics

Guardrails makes it easy to import AWS accounts, Azure subscriptions, and GCP projects. All three types of accounts can be imported via the Console, Terraform, or even via a GraphQL API request. Do a thorough read of the appropriate integration guides. These contain additional steps that must be done prior to importing into Guardrails:

Ensure that the proper access permissions are in place in the child account or Guardrails won't be able to get very far with Discovery!

Guardrails Console

Guardrails Import

Pick a cloud resource to import

Guardrails Account Type

AWS

This is the information required to import an AWS Account.

New AWS Account

Azure

Subscription

This is the information required to import an Azure Subscription.

New Azure Subscription

Tenant

This is the information required to import an Azure Tenant.

New Azure Tenant

Management Group

This is the information required to import an Azure Management Group.

New Azure Management Group

Active Directory

This is the information required to import an Azure Subscription.

New Azure Subscription

GCP

This is the information required to import an GCP Project.

Simple import

New GCP Project Simple

Advanced import

New GCP Project Advanced

Terraform

AWS

Navigate to the AWS Integrations page and simply copy the code and paste into a configuration file, replacing the necessary values.

Check out our AWS Account Import Baseline on the Guardrails Samples Repo.

Azure

Guardrails supports the import of an Azure Tenant