Managing Amazon Web Services Regions

Adding an Amazon Web Services region

If the Amazon Web Services region hosting your cloud resources does not appear when your users attempt to add a cloud account using the Add Cloud Account wizard, you will need to add the region to the list manually using the vp_cdsm_c command-line tool.

To add an Amazon Web Services region using vp_cdsm_c:

  1. On the Vulnerability ProtectionDeep Security Manager server, run the following command: 
    vp_cdsm_c -action addregion -region REGION -display DISPLAY -endpoint ENDPOINT
    where the parameters are:
    Parameter Description Sample value
    REGION The Amazon Web Services identifier for the region. ca-east-1
    DISPLAY The display string to use for the region in the Add Cloud Account wizard. Canada East (Ottawa)
    ENDPOINT The fully-qualified domain name of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) endpoint to use for the region. ec2.ca-east-1.amazonaws.com
If you are running the Vulnerability ProtectionDeep Security Manager in a Linux environment, you will need to run the vp_cdsm_c command as the root user.
You may need to add a trusted certificate when you manually add an Amazon Web Services region. See Managing trusted certificates for more details.

Viewing added Amazon Web Services regions

You can view any added Amazon Web Services regions in your system using the vp_cdsm_c command-line tool.

To view added Amazon Web Services regions using vp_cdsm_c:

  1. On the Vulnerability ProtectionDeep Security Manager server, run the following command: 
    vp_cdsm_c -action listregions
If you are running the Vulnerability ProtectionDeep Security Manager in a Linux environment, you will need to run the vp_cdsm_c command as the root user.

Removing an added Amazon Web Services region

You can remove any added Amazon Web Services regions in your system using the vp_cdsm_c command-line tool.

Any cloud accounts that were added using the region will continue to work, but users will not be able to create new cloud accounts using the region.

To remove an added Amazon Web Services region using vp_cdsm_c:

  1. On the Vulnerability ProtectionDeep Security Manager server, run the following command: 
    vp_cdsm_c -action listregions
  2. Find the region identifier for the region you want to remove in the list.
  3. Run the following command: 
    vp_cdsm_c -action removeregion -region REGION
    The REGION parameter is required.
    Parameter Description Sample value
    REGION The Amazon Web Services identifier for the region. ca-east-1
If you are running the Vulnerability ProtectionDeep Security Manager in a Linux environment, you will need to run the vp_cdsm_c commands as the root user.