Assume a specific role in AWS
GDS maintains a central account for AWS access.
You must have access to this GDS account to work with the govuk-aws repo and the govuk-aws-data repo.
As a data community member, you need to assume a specific role in AWS. For example, an admin
or datascienceuser
role.
Get AWS access as part of getting started on GOV.UK.
Go to the appropriate environment in the
infra-security
folder in thegovuk-aws-data
repo and open a pull request.Open the
common.tfvars
file, and add your information to the appropriaterole_<ROLE>_user_arns
list.For example, if you are John Smith and you want to assume the
admin
role, you would add"arn:aws:iam::622626885786:user/john.smith@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk"
to therole_admin_user_arns
list.Save and merge the pull request.
See the Get access to integration infrastructure documentation for another example of this process.