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title: "Enable AWS Cloud Slice Support"
slug: "enable-aws-cloud-slice-support"
updated: 2024-09-10T18:12:47Z
published: 2024-09-10T18:12:47Z
canonical: "docs.skillable.com/enable-aws-cloud-slice-support"
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# Enable AWS Cloud Slice Support

This document explains how to give the Skillable Studio platform permissions to each Amazon Web Services account that it will use, enabling labs to use those accounts when creating Cloud Slices.

The following are required to use AWS Cloud Slice with Skillable Studio:

- **AWS account**: must be a **root** account that can be set up as an organization. It cannot be a sub-account from an existing organization.
- Billing must be set up on the account
- An **IAM User Account** must be created

Use a Dedicated Account

It is highly recommended to **use an AWS account that is dedicated to Cloud Slice lab use**. This account should not be an extension of your organization's production AWS account that may be used for other purposes.

## Enable Cloud Slice support in your AWS Account(s)

To enable Cloud Slice support, you must perform the following tasks once in each AWS Account that you want to use with Skillable Studio:

1. Navigate to the [AWS Portal](https://aws.amazon.com/).
2. Click **sign in to the console**.

![Sign in to the console button](https://cdn.document360.io/a298db04-a0fe-47e0-bfe3-c52d6f9d7c8c/Images/Documentation/sign-in-to-the-console.png)
3. If you already have an AWS account, enter your **credentials**. If you do not have an account, click **Create a new AWS account**.
4. Go to **Organization** by clicking on your username in the upper-right corner.

![Select Organization](https://cdn.document360.io/a298db04-a0fe-47e0-bfe3-c52d6f9d7c8c/Images/Documentation/aws-organization.png)
5. Click **Create Organization** and create an organization.
6. Once the organization is set up click on the **Policies** tab at the top of the page.
7. Click the **Service control policies** option.

![Select AWS Service Control policies](https://cdn.document360.io/a298db04-a0fe-47e0-bfe3-c52d6f9d7c8c/Images/Documentation/aws-service-control-policy.png)
8. Click the button to **Enable service control policies**.

### IAM User Creation

1. Click the **AWS icon** in the upper-left corner to return home.
2. Under **Find Services**, search for **IAM**.

![search for iam](https://cdn.document360.io/a298db04-a0fe-47e0-bfe3-c52d6f9d7c8c/Images/Documentation/search-for-iam.png)
3. Click **IAM**.
4. Click **Users** on the left side of the page.
5. Click **Create user**.
6. Enter a name for the user. I.E. *SkillableStudioAPI*. The naming doesn't really matter, as long as the lab author will recognize it later.
7. Click **Next: permissions**.
8. Under Set Permissions, select **Attach policies directly**.
9. In the *Filter Policies* field, search for **Org**.
10. Click the checkbox to select **AWSOrganizationsFullAccess**. AWSOrganizationsFullAccess being assigned is required, so that the Skillable Studio service account can manage the organization created in previous steps.

![Select AWS Organization Full Access](https://cdn.document360.io/a298db04-a0fe-47e0-bfe3-c52d6f9d7c8c/Images/Documentation/aws-organizationfullaccess.png)
11. In the *Filter Policies* field, search for **Admin**
12. Click the checkbox to select **AdministratorAccess**. This will allow Skillable Studio service account full access to manage the root AWS Account.

![Select Administrator Access](https://cdn.document360.io/a298db04-a0fe-47e0-bfe3-c52d6f9d7c8c/Images/Documentation/aws-administrator-access.png)
13. Click Next: tags.
14. Click Next: review.
15. Click **Create user**.

![Create User button](https://cdn.document360.io/a298db04-a0fe-47e0-bfe3-c52d6f9d7c8c/Images/Documentation/aws-create-user.png)
16. Click the User name of the user we just created.
17. Click on the **Security credentials** tab. Scroll down to the **Access keys** section and click **Create access key**.

![Create Access Key button](https://cdn.document360.io/a298db04-a0fe-47e0-bfe3-c52d6f9d7c8c/Images/Documentation/aws-create-access-key.png)
18. Select the **Third-party service** option and then check the confirmation box.
19. If desired, add an optional description to the key and then proceed to the next page.

Record your **Access key** and **Secret access key** in a secure location. Once this page is closed, you will not be able to obtain this information again. If it is lost, the access key must be recreated from the user account settings.

### Increase Maximum Amount of Accounts

Next, we need to increase the maximum amount of accounts that can be created. If you expect 20 lab users, you will need 20 accounts. It is a good idea to increase this amount to allow more accounts than needed, to ensure future events will be supported, or if more lab users join the event. A new ticket with AWS will need to be created each time this needs increased.

only 10 total accounts can exist within an AWS Organization by default. This includes the management account and then 9 member accounts.

To increase the maximum amount of accounts that can be created:

1. Click the **question mark** in the upper-right corner of the page.
2. Click **Support Center**.

![AWS Support Center link](https://cdn.document360.io/a298db04-a0fe-47e0-bfe3-c52d6f9d7c8c/Images/Documentation/aws-support-link.png)
3. Click **Create Case**. d
4. Click **"Looking for service quota increases?"**.

![Looking for service quota increase link](https://cdn.document360.io/a298db04-a0fe-47e0-bfe3-c52d6f9d7c8c/Images/Documentation/aws-quota-link.png)
5. Under Service, select **Organizations**
6. Under Requests; Quota, select **Number of accounts**.

![Requests field - enter new limit value](https://cdn.document360.io/a298db04-a0fe-47e0-bfe3-c52d6f9d7c8c/Images/Documentation/requests-number-of-accounts.png)
7. Enter the number of accounts for the upper limit to be increased to.
8. Under Case Description, enter a justification, or explanation of why you are increasing the number of accounts.
9. Under Contact Options, select **web**. If you prefer, you may select a different language.

![Contact Options with Web selected](https://cdn.document360.io/a298db04-a0fe-47e0-bfe3-c52d6f9d7c8c/Images/Documentation/contact-options.png)
10. Click **Submit**.

AWS generally responds within 24 hours, notifying that the case has been completed and limits are increased. The ticket confirmation is needed before setting up AWS Cloud Slice in Skillable Studio.

Once you have completed the above steps, and AWS has confirmed the maximum amount of accounts has been increased, you will need to [set up your Cloud Slice labs in Skillable Studio](/v1/docs/create-cloud-subscription-pool).

Amazon Web Services is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis.

Cloud Slice is Skillable's proprietary technology that enables you to take a single cloud subscription and provide isolated access to a high volume of users at a single time.