VMware Aria Hub

Announcing VMware Aria Hub May Release

We are excited to continue expanding the capabilities of VMware Aria Hub with our May release, further enhancing a true multi-cloud management platform with centralized views and controls powered by cloud-scale, graph-based data store technology. 

What’s New –

VMware Aria Hub May Release

AWS Bulk Onboarding

VMware Aria Hub provides users with detailed visibility into their cloud environments, and especially into the relationships among the cloud resources in their inventory.  For AWS users, we are excited to announce the addition of AWS Bulk Onboarding, which makes it easier to incorporate AWS member accounts into VMware Aria Hub as well as understand account relationships. Though users of the VMware Aria Hub Free Tier will still be limited to onboarding two public cloud accounts, AWS Bulk Onboarding is extremely useful to those who subscribe to the platform and strive to better manage multi-cloud environments at scale. 

This new capability allows VMware Aria Hub to assess a top-level AWS account and discover the account hierarchy and relationships with other member accounts as part of the inventory collection process. The account hierarchy will be visualized through the Explore view in VMware Aria Hub, with information aggregated to give you insights into your environment and details on violations, cost, performance, and other business-relevant content.  

To take advantage of AWS Bulk Onboarding, users simply need to add credentials for a top-level AWS account into VMware Aria Hub. The platform will take care of the rest as you walk through an intuitive onboarding guide, selecting the member accounts that you want to add, editing member account properties, and finally onboarding those accounts.  

Elevated Credentials

We have also released elevated credentials in VMware Aria Hub. When managing cloud environments, it is a best practice apply the principle of least privilege for credentials and roles that are accessing cloud accounts, especially when permissions to add, change, or delete data within the cloud provider account are in consideration. The addition of elevated credentials in VMware Aria Hub and its integrated services moves us closer to helping you apply the principle of least privilege, and we will continue to work on new releases to this end. Using elevated credentials in VMware Aria Hub, you can ensure that credentials are only granted the permissions required to perform its designated activities. For example, if a credential is only needed for collecting public cloud inventory, it should not also have the permission to add, change, or delete data on the cloud provider account.  

You can address the setup requirements of other services integrated with VMware Aria Hub, such as VMware Aria Guardrails, by granting permissions with elevated credentials. By adding a specific credential for a service like VMware Aria Guardrails, you can also keep the initial “read-only” credential in VMware Aria Hub that exists only for collection purposes. As more services become available in VMware Aria Hub, elevated credentials enables the flexibility required to make the most of the platform while eliminating exposure through unnecessary permissions. 

We are extremely excited to offer this additional capability for how you setup your accounts and permissions in VMware Aria Hub, and look forward to sharing more as we add new capabilities and services to the platform! 

Learn more

Sign up now to try VMware Aria Hub Free Tier. We’ll send you an email with instructions on how to access the service and see powerful insights into governance, security, and cost across your AWS, Azure, and GCP accounts – for free!

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Dan Naparstek

Dan is a member of the Product Marketing team for VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth. He focuses on the VMware Aria Cost go-to-market strategy and driving the launches of…

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