Manager Guide
28 pages
As a Manager, your role is to oversee the day-to-day usage of sandbox environments within your team or department. You will approve or reject sandbox requests, assign the right account templates to users, and track spending and activity for accounts under your supervision.
This guide will help you set up account templates for your users, manage approvals, monitor usage against budgets, and coordinate access so that your team has the resources they need without exceeding agreed limits.
Contents
- Leases
7 pages
- What are leases?A Lease is the core concept in Sandbox Studio. It represents a time-bound and/or budget-bound grant of access to a temporary AWS account for one or…
- Listing leasesAs a Manager, you can see and manage leases. To have management access to leases, you need to: Have Manager access in Sandbox Studio Be granted…
- Filtering leasesFilter by lease status From the leases page, you can select the status of the leases you want to display. Example, only showing "Pending Approval"…
- Lease detailsThis page describes the different sections of the lease details page: Account Summary Account summary contains the basic information about the lease…
- Approving & rejecting leasesAccessing approvals When setting up the Account Templates, the Manager or Admins can set an account to require approval, before it is issued to a…
- Locking & unlocking an accountManagers and Administrators can lock (and unlock) accounts. Accounts can be locked if they are over budget or if they have expired. Once locked, the…
- Extend budget or durationAccount limits versus Account templates limits: It is important to understand how duration and budget work: The initial budget/duration of an account…
- Events
10 pages
- What are events?Events allow you to assign and manage AWS accounts for a group of users in one place. This is useful when working with a defined set of participants,…
- Event creation - OverviewTo create a new account template: Click on "Events" on the left menu Click on "Create Event" Creating an event is a 6-step process listed as follows:…
- Event creation - Basic detailsFirst step of the event creation wizard is to set the basic information to describe your event: Name of the event: Remember, this is will be used by…
- Event creation - Account templateIn this step, you define the account template you want to use in your event. The account template will define settings like: Permissions Resources…
- Event creation - ManagersThis step allows you to define who can manage the event: Update event Add or remove accounts and assign users Select the users who can manage your…
- Event creation - ScheduleThis steps define the schedule of an event. Schedule are defined as follows: Start Date Start now Selecting this option will automatically provision…
- Event creation - ParticipantsThis step allows you to define how many accounts (leases) you want to have as part of your event. For instance, for a hackathon with 5 participants,…
- Event creation - ReviewLast step of the event creation wizard, the review screen allows to check everything is correct: Click Submit to create your event. You are…
- Terminate eventsDepending on your event configuration, your event can be stopped : At a specific date After a certain duration (from the event start date) Manually,…
- Start events and provision accountsDepending on your event configuration, your event can: Start immediately The event (and provisioning of the accounts) start when the event is created…
- Account TemplatesGuide to create and update lease templates
6 pages
- What are account templates?An Account Template (also referred to as a Lease Template) is the blueprint that defines how a lease behaves and what the target AWS account looks…
- Account template creation - OverviewTo create a new account template: Click on "Account Templates" on the left menu Click on "Add Account Template" Creating an account template is a…
- Account template creation - Launch SettingsUsing launch templates, managers can define what resources need to be set up on new accounts creation. For instance, create S3 buckets, deploy Cloud…
- Account template creation - ReviewHaving completed all the steps, the final step is to Review the selected settings and one satisfied that everything is correct, click Submit to…
- Update Account templatesTo update an account template, go to "Account Templates" and open the template you want to modify: Then edit any of the fields you want to update:
- Duplicate Account TemplatesTo duplicate an account template, go to "Account Templates" and open the template you want to duplicate: Click on the "Actions" button and choose…
- ReportingAs a Manager or Administrator, you can view the costs incurred by the leases. This allows you to keep track of the costs of your leased accounts. You…
- Reference : Lease StatesLeases states in Sandbox Studio. This table explains the various states the leases can be in at any given time. State Terminal state? Description…