Grafana Assume Role is currently in [private preview](https://grafana.com/docs/release-life-cycle/) for Grafana Cloud.
Grafana Assume Role is only available in Grafana Cloud.
It's currently only available for Amazon CloudWatch.
To gain early access to this feature, contact Customer Support and ask for the `awsDatasourcesTempCredentials` feature toggle to be enabled on your account.
It's currently only available for Amazon CloudWatch and Athena.
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The Grafana Assume Role authentication provider lets you authenticate with AWS without having to create and maintain long term AWS users or rotate their access and secret keys. Instead, you can create an IAM role that has permissions to access CloudWatch and a trust relationship with Grafana's AWS account. Grafana's AWS account then makes an STS request to AWS to create temporary credentials to access your AWS data. It makes this STS request by passing along an `externalID` that's unique per Cloud account, to ensure that Grafana Cloud users can only access their own AWS data. For more information, refer to the [AWS documentation on external ID](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_create_for-user_externalid.html).
To use the Grafana Assume Role:
1. Grafana Cloud customers need to open a support ticket to enable the feature `awsDatasourcesTempCredentials`.
This feature is enabled by default in open source Grafana and Grafana Enterprise.
2. Once the feature is enabled, create a new CloudWatch data source (or update an existing one) and select **Grafana Assume Role** as an authentication provider.
3. In the AWS Console, create a new IAM role, and under **Trusted entity type**, select **Another AWS account** as the trusted Entity.
4. Enter Grafana's account id (displayed in the instructions box on the **Settings** tab of the CloudWatch data source configuration) and check the **Require external ID** box.
5. Enter the external ID specified in the instructions box on the **Settings** tab of the CloudWatch data source configuration in Grafana. This external ID will be unique to your Grafana instance.
6. Attach any required permissions you would like Grafana to be able to access on your behalf (for example, CloudWatch Logs and CloudWatch Metrics policies).
7. Give the role a name and description, and click **Create role**.
8. Copy the ARN of the role you just created and paste it into the **Assume Role ARN** field on the **Settings** tab of CloudWatch data source configuration in Grafana.
1. Create a new CloudWatch data source (or update an existing one) and select **Grafana Assume Role** as an authentication provider.
2. In the AWS Console, create a new IAM role, and under **Trusted entity type**, select **Another AWS account** as the trusted Entity.
3. Enter the Grafana account id (displayed in the instructions box on the **Settings** tab of the CloudWatch data source configuration) and check the **Require external ID** box.
4. Enter the external ID specified in the instructions box on the **Settings** tab of the CloudWatch data source configuration in Grafana. This external ID will be unique to your Grafana instance.
5. Attach any required permissions you would like Grafana to be able to access on your behalf (for example, CloudWatch Logs and CloudWatch Metrics policies).
6. Give the role a name and description, and click **Create role**.
7. Copy the ARN of the role you just created and paste it into the **Assume Role ARN** field on the **Settings** tab of CloudWatch data source configuration in Grafana.
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