Configure AWS Resource Explorer using Quick Setup - AWS Systems Manager

Configure AWS Resource Explorer using Quick Setup

With Quick Setup, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, you can quickly configure AWS Resource Explorer to search and discover resources in your AWS account or across an entire AWS organization. You can search for your resources using metadata like names, tags, and IDs. AWS Resource Explorer provides fast responses to your search queries by using indexes. Resource Explorer creates and maintains indexes using a variety of data sources to gather information about resources in your AWS account.

Quick Setup for Resource Explorer automates the index configuration process. For more information about AWS Resource Explorer, see What is AWS Resource Explorer? in the AWS Resource Explorer User Guide.

During Quick Setup, Resource Explorer does the following:

  • Creates an index in every AWS Region in your AWS account.

  • Updates the index in the Region you specify to be the aggregator index for the account.

  • Creates a default view in the aggregator index Region. This view has no filters so it returns all resources found in the index.

Minimum permissions

To perform the steps in the following procedure, you must have the following permissions:

  • Action: resource-explorer-2:* – Resource: no specific resource (*)

  • Action: iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole – Resource: no specific resource (*)

To configure Resource Explorer

  1. Open the AWS Systems Manager console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Quick Setup.

  3. On the Resource Explorer card, choose Create.

  4. In the Aggregator Index Region section, choose which Region you want to contain the aggregator index. You should select the Region that is appropriate for the geographic location for your users.

  5. (Optional) Select the Replace existing aggregator indexes in Regions other than the one selected above check box.

  6. In the Targets section, choose the target organization or specific Organizational Units (OUs) containing the resources you want to discover.

  7. In the Regions section, choose which Regions to include in the configuration.

  8. Review the configuration summary, and then choose Create.

On the Resource Explorer page, you can monitor the configuration status.