Confirm GovCloud account configuration

Products

• CloudHealth

Issue/Introduction

AWS GovCloud (US) is an isolated AWS Region designed to allow US Government agencies and customers to move sensitive workloads into the cloud by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements.

GovCloud accounts must be associated with either a consolidated or standalone account. Once associated with one of these accounts, all billing and usage is reported as though it originated from the GovCloud account.

Resolution

If you are planning to have CloudHealth monitor a GovCloud account that will be linked into a consolidated bill, follow these guidelines: 

• Proactively set up an empty Amazon account for each GovCloud account.
• Associate the GovCloud account with the empty account.
• Link the empty account into your consolidated bill.

These steps enable the GovCloud activity to be reported within your consolidated billing records with a distinct account. Otherwise, activity is reported with the Account ID of the consolidated bill.