In this article, we’ll explain how to integrate InvGate Asset Management with Amazon Web Services (AWS). This native integration allows you to connect your AWS account to InvGate Asset Management so you can synchronize cloud assets, centralize resource data, and improve visibility across your environment from a single IT Asset Management platform.
As part of InvGate Asset Management’s native integrations, this capability helps IT teams simplify cloud asset discovery and ongoing synchronization without relying on manual tracking. In the following sections, we’ll walk through the setup process, the required credentials, and how synchronized AWS assets appear and can be managed in InvGate Asset Management.
What is the InvGate Asset Management + AWS integration used for?
The InvGate Asset Management and AWS integration allows organizations to import and synchronize AWS resources into InvGate Asset Management.
With this AWS cloud integration, IT teams can improve visibility across their cloud environment by bringing resource data into a single place. Instead of relying on manual tracking, they can build a more reliable cloud asset inventory and keep AWS asset information aligned with the rest of their infrastructure records.
This native capability supports AWS asset discovery across selected services and regions, helping teams identify and manage cloud resources such as EC2 instances and other supported assets. As a result, organizations can maintain better control over their AWS environment, enrich asset profiles with relevant details, and extend IT Asset Management practices beyond on-premise infrastructure.
Prerequisites
Before setting up the InvGate Asset Management AWS integration, make sure you have the following:
- Administrator access to InvGate Asset Management to create and manage Discovery sources.
- An AWS account with valid credentials for the integration.
- An Access key ID and Secret access key generated in AWS.
- An Identity and Access Management (IAM) user with the required permissions to allow InvGate Asset Management to retrieve AWS resource data.
- The AWS regions and resource types you want to synchronize already defined, so you can complete the configuration more easily.
If you still need to generate the credentials, the process typically involves creating an IAM user, assigning the required policy, and then creating the access key used during setup.
How to integrate InvGate Asset Management with Amazon Web Services
Once you have completed the prerequisites above, the setup is straightforward.
First, you need to configure AWS as a Discovery source in InvGate Asset Management. Then, you can run the synchronization to import the selected AWS resources and their data into your InvGate Asset Management instance.
This process helps you build a more complete cloud asset inventory by bringing AWS asset data into a centralized platform. Let’s go step by step.
Step 1: Configuring the Discovery source
To configure the integration, log in to InvGate Asset Management as an administrator and go to Settings > Network > Discovery sources. Then, open the catalog, select the AWS option, and create a new discovery source.
Complete the configuration form by adding a name for the integration, validating your AWS credentials, and selecting the regions and resource types you want to synchronize. Supported AWS resources can be imported as assets, including EC2 instances, Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), Elastic Block Store (EBS), ElastiCache, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Relational Database Service (RDS), and Simple Storage Service (S3).
You can also define how the synchronization will run, including its schedule and recurrence. Once the form is completed, save the configuration to finish the setup.
Step 2: Synchronizing and reviewing AWS assets in InvGate Asset Management
After the discovery source is configured, run the synchronization so InvGate Asset Management can import the selected resources from your AWS environment.
Once the sync is completed, InvGate Asset Management creates individual asset profiles for the supported cloud resources you selected. For example, EC2 instance profiles can display details such as state, CPU, RAM, storage, instance type, region, IP address, cloud account information, and cloud provider. For other AWS resources, the platform displays the attributes that correspond to each resource type.
You can then review imported resources from Assets > Cloud Assets, where InvGate Asset Management provides a centralized view of your cloud asset inventory. From there, your team can open each asset profile, review its details, and continue managing those resources with features such as tags, custom fields, notes, contracts, and activity tracking.
Next steps
Once your AWS resources are synchronized, the next step is to turn that data into something useful for day-to-day asset management.
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Add cloud assets to your CMDB - Include imported AWS resources in your Configuration Management Database (CMDB) to give them more context within your broader IT environment. This helps teams understand relationships between cloud and on-premise assets and supports more informed operational decisions.
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Start simple automation with Smart Tags and health rules - Use InvGate Smart Tags to automatically classify cloud assets based on the information retrieved from AWS, and apply health rules to highlight assets that need attention. This is a simple way to begin adding automation and structure to your cloud asset management processes.
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Keep assets organized and traceable over time - After synchronization, your team can review cloud assets from a centralized inventory, create filtered views, and use activity tracking to maintain visibility over changes and follow-up actions. This makes it easier to keep your AWS asset data organized and usable over time.
Wrapping up
Integrating InvGate Asset Management with Amazon Web Services helps you bring AWS resources into a centralized asset inventory, making it easier to track cloud assets alongside the rest of your IT environment.
Once the integration is in place, the real value comes from what you do next: reviewing synchronized assets, organizing them in your inventory, and using features such as CMDB, Smart Tags, and health rules to give that data operational value.
If you want to explore this workflow in your own environment, you can start with InvGate Asset Management’s 30-day free trial and see how AWS asset discovery fits into your IT Asset Management processes.
