Note: You can connect to multiple different AWS accounts. This can be useful if you would like to deploy different environments to different accounts.
Follow the steps below to connect to an AWS account.
1

Ensure you are logged in to your AWS account already with Admin access

  1. If you do not have an AWS Account, check out how to create one.
2

Navigate to the AWS Connection page

  1. Navigate to the AWS Connections page.
  2. Click Add AWS Account
3

Follow The Steps

  1. Name the connection whatever you like. This is typically a friendly readable name of your choice.
  2. Click the Open AWS with this link which will open a new tab in the AWS console.
  3. Within the new tab, you need to click the Create Stack button.
  4. This will kickoff a cloudformation deployment in your AWS account which will create a role for Deplify to use for access.
  5. You can close the AWS tab and go back to the Deplify tab.
  6. After a minute or two the connection should be created.