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Cloud Information Center Module Breakdown

This post summarizes all the modules in the CIC:

MAIN (Main Tab):

  • AWS News RSS feed
  • Module selection and load
  • Default settings
    • Visualize local system information (CPU/RAM/Disks/Network Interfaces)
    • Adjust Informational box text colors
    • Adjust code box colors
    • Thresholds for max visualizations per page, and S3 Operations to background jobs
  • Product manual and notes page
  • Service quotas, request quota changes
  • Service pricing
  • AMI finder, de-register AMIs
  • Secret Manager – List and get Secrets
  • Support – View and comment on cases
  • User Notifications – List and view

CRD (Credentials):

  • View and load portal list
  • Build credentials from SSO or IAM

VPC (Virtual Private Cloud and Related Resources):

  • List and visualize VPCs
    • List and view misc. VPC related resources
    • View subnets, route tables, route table operations
    • Visualize routing from VPC
    • Visualize subnets with or without EC2 instances in selected VPC
    • Route map archive – visualize
  • Visualize EC2 instances in a VPC and associated components, metadata
    • Visualize EC2 metrics
    • View EC2 console output, get screenshot
    • EC2 operations
    • EC2 search
    • EC2 visualize location
    • Find EC2 Instance types
    • EC2 Status – trace route, ping, ping port, NS Lookup, screenshot, get Console Output
    • EC2 operations
    • Dedicated Hosts – List, Visualize
  • Security Groups – List, get metadata
    • Visualize group rules
    • List ENIs attached to groups
    • SG Operations
  • NACLs – list, get metadata
    • Visualize NACL Rules
    • NACL Operations
  • Managed Prefix Lists – List, get metadata
    • Get associations for Prefix Lists
    • Prefix List Operations
  • Network Interfaces – List, get metadata
    • Visualize Network Interfaces
    • Network Interface Ops
  • EBS Volumes – List, get metadata
    • List volume associated snapshots
    • EBS Operations
  • EBS Snapshots
    • List all EBS snapshots associated with a volume
    • Snapshot Operations
  • VPC Endpoints
    • List and get metadata on any VPC Endpoint
  • Systems Manager (SSM)
    • List SSM Documents, get metadata
    • Visualize documentation
    • List document steps
    • Execute SSM Document
    • Visualize SSM Document steps while running
    • SSM Command executions – List, get metadata
    • SSM Inventory – View Instances, target metadata
    • List Resource Groups
    • SSM Parameters – List, get parameter metadata
    • SSM Code Reference Library
    • Build library, append library
    • Search library
    • Destroy Library
  • Load Balancers – List, get metadata
    • Visualize Load balancer
    • Get Listener, Rule metadata
    • Get Load Balancer Target Groups, Target metadata
  • Visualize Autoscaling Group
    • Autoscaling Groups – List, get metadata
    • List ASG Instances
    • List Autoscaling activity, get metadata
    • Launch Templates – List, get metadata
    • Visualize Launch template version
    • Launch Configurations – List, get metadata
  • EFS – List File Systems, get metadata
    • Visualize EFS File system
    • List EFS Mount Targets, metadata
  • FSX – List FSX File Systems, get metadata
    • Visualize FSX File System
    • List FSX Volumes, get metadata
  • AWS Backup – List vaults, get metadata
    • List Backup Plans, get metadata
    • List AWS Backup jobs, get metadata
    • List Restore jobs, get metadata
    • List Vault Recovery Points
  • AWS Backup Operations
  • Transit Gateway – List TGW peering connections, get metadata
    • Accept/Reject TGW peering requests
    • List Transit Gateways, get metadata
    • List TGW Multicast domains, get metadata
    • List Transit Gateway route tables, get metadata
    • List TGW associated attachments, get metadata
    • Visualize Transit Gateway
    • Visualize attachments for Selected TGW route table
    • List routes for TGW
    • Add/Remove TGW routes
  • VPN Connections – list, get metadata
    • Visualize VPN status
    • List Customer Gateways, get metadata
    • List Virtual Private Gateways, get metadata
    • List VPN Device types, get sample configurations
  • List Transit Gateway policy tables, list table entries
    • List table associations
  • AWS Network Firewalls – List and get metdata
    • List network firewall policies, get metadata
    • List network firewall rule groups, get metadata
    • Add/Remove Stateful rule group rules
  • DNS Firewalls – List, get DNS firewall rule groups, get metadata
  • Route53 DNS Firewall Domain Lists – List
    • Add/Remove domain to/from list
  • TLS Inspection Certificate Configurations – List, get metdata
  • EC2 Resource Tagging – List tags for and EC2 based resource
    • Tagging operations for resource
  • Global Net
    • Plot AWS regions on world map
    • Plot any coordinate on world map
    • Global/Core Networks – list, get metadata
    • List Core network Edges, Network Function Groups, Segments
      • Plot on world map
  • IP Address geolocation – Plot any public IP Address on world map
    • get location information for IP Address

CFN (Cloudformation Builder):

  • List all Cloudformation resources and properties
  • Visualize any CFN resource or property
  • List resource return values
  • List selected resource attributes, links to AWS Information pages on resource
  • List selected property attributes, links to AWS Information pages on property
  • List all AWS Cloudformation intrinsic functions, links to function AWS information page
  • Resource / Property finder
  • Show current template in JSON
  • Show current template in YAML (once template has been updated)
  • List all resources in template
    • Get / Set resource attributes
    • Visualize full template
    • Visualize any part or parts of a template
    • Show code for selected CFN resource (and direct relationships if required) for selected

CFV (Cloudformation Inventory):

  • List all CFN Stacks
    • Visualize all resources in stack
    • List Stack outputs, stack metadata
    • get Stack template/Change set
    • List Stack drift detection jobs, stack drift
    • List Stack Logical resources
      • Visualize CFN all Stack relationships
      • Visualize selected Stack component relationships
  • List All CFN Stack sets, get metadata
    • List Stack set Instances
    • List CFN Stack Set detection jobs, drift for selected stack
  • IAC Resource Scan List – List and start scans
    • List resource types and resources found in selected scan
    • Visualize related resources in selected scan
    • List and generate templates for selected resource relationships
    • Get generated template
    • List template resource status
  • Get Cloudformation Resource Schema for any resource
    • Visualize selected resource schema

DPY (Cloudformation Deployer):

  • List all Cloudformation stacks, get template/metadata/events for selected stack
  • Stack Operations
    • List, create and execute any stack change set
  • List all Cloudformation Stack Sets, get template/metadata/events for selected stack set
  • Stack Set Operations

CCA (Cloud Control API):

  • List all Cloud Control API supported resources, including third party resources
  • Enable/Disable resource type if applicable
  • Get JSON code for selected resource
  • Get selected resource schema
  • Cloud Control API Operations:
    • List supported CCA supported resources
    • Read and get code for any CCA supported resources
      • Get JSON/YAML code for selected resource
      • Visualize selected resource
    • Create any CCA supported resources
    • Update any CCA supported resources
    • Delete any CCA supported resources
    • List CCA resource requests
    • Get Status of any CCA request
    • Cancel CCA request

CFG (AWS Config):

  • List all Config supported resources
  • List Config Aggregators in Region
  • Get metatdata on any selected resource
    • Visualize all related resource relationships
    • List all related resources
    • List compliance on selected resources
    • Visualize compliance on selected resources
  • Config Rules – List all Config rules
    • List compliance status on selected rule
  • List all Conformance Packs
    • List compliance and related Config rules for selected Conformance Pack
  • List all Config Aggregator source status

ORG (AWS Organization):

  • List all Org roots, ID Stores
  • List / Delete users on Org / ID store
    • List Group metadata, membership for selected users
    • List Associated Permission Sets /Accounts for selected user
  • List Groups for Selected Org / ID Store
    • List selected group memberships
    • Add / Remove Users from groups
    • List Associated Permission Sets /Accounts for selected group
    • IDC Operations – Create / delete users and groups
  • List Organizational Units and Accounts for selected Organization
  • List Org policies for selected OU / Account
  • Visualize Org policies for selected OU / Account
  • Attach / Detach policy to/from selected OU / Account
  • List Org Policies
    • List targets for selected policy
    • Create / Delete Policies
  • List all IAM policies
    • List all entities using selected policy
  • List all SSO Permission Sets, get attached policies, accounts
  • Control Tower – List LZs, Baselines, get metadata
    • List all enabled controls, get selected control metadata
    • List Landing Zone Operation List, get metadata on selected operation
    • Enable / Disable control
  • Get current Org metdata, including OUs, Accounts
  • List enabled services for Organization
    • Attach / Detach Permission set, Group, User to/from selected accounts
    • Add / Remove selected Delegated Admin account for services
  • Get status for all regions
    • Get contact information for Organization
    • Enable / Disable any region
  • Visualize and list all members for selected Org root
  • Visualize and list all OUs for selected root
  • Visualize and list all members for selected OU

RAM (Resource Access Manager):

  • List all Outbound resource shares
    • List all resources in selected outbound share
    • List policies for selected outbound share
    • List all Principals in selected share
    • List permission lists associated with outbound share
    • RAM Outbound operations
  • List all Inbound resource shares
    • List all Principals on inbound share
    • List Permission lists associated with inbound share

IAM (AWS Identity and Access Management):

  • List all IAM Users, get metadata
    • Visualize all policies associated with user
    • List selected user group memberships
    • User Operations
      • Create / Delete user
      • Attach / Detach Managed policies associated with user
      • Edit inline policy on user
  • List all IAM Roles, get metadata
    • Visualize all policies associated with role
    • Role Operations:
      • Create / Delete role
      • Attach / Detach managed policies associated with role
      • Edit inline policy on role
  • List all IAM groups, get metadata
    • Visualize attached policies for group
    • List Group membership
    • Add / Remove users on group
    • IAM Group Operations:
      • Create / Delete group
      • Attach / Detach managed policies associated with group
      • Edit inline policy on group
  • List all IAM Policies, get metadata
    • List all entities using this policy
    • Create / Delete IAM policy and version
    • Set policy version as default
    • Set permission boundaries on policy
  • IAM Instance Profiles
    • List all Instance Profiles
    • Create / delete instance profile
    • Attach / Detach role on instance profile
  • Resource Tagging
    • Attach / detach tag to/from all selected users, roles, policies and instance profiles
  • Request / Get IAM Credential report
  • JSON/YAML Object validation
    • Validate any JSON object
    • Convert JSON object to YAML
    • Convert any YAML object to JSON

S3 (Simple Storage Service):

  • List all General Purpose S3 buckets, get metadata
  • Browse selected S3 bucket
  • Upload / Download S3 Objects
    • Large operations can be run in the background
    • Create S3 keys (directories)
    • Delete S3 objects
    • Get S3 Object Metadata, ACL, Object, Tagset and URL

CST (Cost and Usage):

  • Graph service totals for selected month or year, including cost and usage quantities
    • Detailed graphing allows users to change the graph type, dimension
  • Get and graph active AWS Cost Allocation Tags
  • Export findings to CSV

RXP (AWS Resource Explorer, Cloudtrail, Cloudwatch, Eventbridge, Resource Groups):

  • Find resources using AWS Resource Explorer
    • List tags associated with results
  • Cloudtrail event search
    • Export results to CSV or external grid view
  • List Cloudwatch events, get metadata on selected event
    • Export results to CSV
  • List Eventbridge rules, get metadata
  • List Eventbridge Event Buses
    • List associated rules and rule metadata
  • List Eventbridge Schedules and Groups, get metdata
  • List all Resource Groups, get metadata
    • List resources in selected group
  • Resource Group Operations:
    • Create / Destroy Resource Group
    • Update description, lifecycle, query associated with group
  • Resource Group Tagging
    • Get tag keys and values
    • Start tagging report creation
    • List resources matching selected tags
    • Tag all selected resources
    • Generate tag failure report
    • List all Cloudwatch alarms, get status, metadata

LMF (Lambda Functions):

  • List all Lamba functions and versions
  • Visualize selected Lambda function version
  • Get policies attached to function
  • Execute Lambda function with payload
  • Set execution role on function
  • Add / remove alias on function
  • Delete function

SFN (Step Functions):

  • List all Step Functions, get metadata
  • Visualize selected function
  • View function definition
  • List function stages, get metadata
  • Execute Function with payload
  • Get function execution status
  • Restart failed function
  • View function outputs if applicable

RDY (RDS, Athena, Dynamo):

  • List all RDS Instances / Clusters, get metadata
  • Visualize RDS Instances / Clusters and associated tags
  • List RDS Instance / Cluster associated:
    • Security Groups
    • Read Replicas
    • Cluster members
    • Parameter Groups, parameters on each
    • Option Groups, options, metadata on each
  • List all Dynamodb tables, get metadata
  • Visualize Dynamodb table
  • List Dynamodb backups
  • Edit Dynamodb Billing mode, write capacity
  • Dynamodb Operations:
    • Get Item
    • Scan Table
    • Execute query
  • List all Athena Catalogs
    • List databases for catalog
  • List all Athena Workgroups
    • List named queries for workgroup
  • Write and execute Athena queries
    • List query executions and get query results
  • Athena Operations:
    • Create, update and delete Athena Named queries
  • List all RDS recommendations, get selected recommendation
  • List all pending maintenance on RDS Instances

R53 (Route 53):

  • List all Route53 Hosted Zones, get metadata, DNSSec data
  • List all records for zone, get list metadata
  • List all health checks, get metadata
  • List all traffic policies for selected zone
  • List all traffic policies, get metadata
  • List all resolver rules, get rule metadata
    • Attach / Detach rule associated with VPC
  • List all Resolver endpoints, get metadata

AIX (AI and Code Deployer):

  • List ChatGPT API Keys
    • Create CIC written prompts and query ChagGPT model 3.5 Turbo, 4.0 mini
    • Write manual prompts and query ChagGPT model 3.5 Turbo, 4.0 mini
  • Directed Code Execution:
    • List regions and accounts to deploy code into
    • Load or write code to be deployed as background jobs with unique variables for each job with adjustable concurrency
  • Background Jobs:
    • Load or build background task list
    • Execute background jobs in task list on demand
    • Receive results on selected background job
    • List Background job history, remove jobs
  • List all Powershell base cmdlets
    • Get syntax and manual pages for any cmdlet
    • Get online help page for selected cmdlet
  • Search for any AWS Powershell cmdlet
    • View cmdlet syntax and service operation
  • Search for any AWS Powershell supported service or list all
    • List cmdlets for selected service
    • Get syntax for selected cmdlet
  • List all AWS Services
    • List all Actions, condition Keys and Resources associated with service
    • List all cmdlets associated with selection
  • CIM/WMI:
    • List all local CIM Classes
      • List CIM class metadata
      • List Class Properties, Qualifiers and Methods associated with class
      • Query local class via full query
      • Query local class via WQL query
    • Execute WMI query to remote Windows machines with manually added credentials
    • Visualize remote simple Windows sysinfo queries

AVB (Application and Structure Visualization, Charting, History and Web Interface):

  • List and load any saved AVB structure
    • Manually build any AVB structure
    • Any double-clicked line from a supported datagrid in any module will appear here for visualization
    • Import / Export and structure
  • Structure Visualization:
    • Structures from AVB Structure Builder will appear here
    • If the structure has existing EC2 instances, a live update on those instances can be run from here
  • Datagrid Import:
    • Any entry list sent from a supported datagrid will appear on this tab for charting, exporting. Lists can also be imported from csv here in order to be charted
  • Datagrid Charting:
    • Any data from the Datagrid Import tab will be charted here. All data or only selected data
  • Event History:
    • Any entry from a supported datagrid in any module will appear here
    • Once start/end dates (3 month max timespan) are added and an entry is selected, you can search for all events for the entry. Results will appear on the History tab
      • Any returned event can be queried, the event metadata will show up in the Event Metadata box
    • For multiple entry searches, all results must be sent to a CSV and will not show up in the History list
    • All event searches take place in the background, allowing users to select multiple entries and continue to work in other modules
    • For all selected History events, a pattern search can be run with the results placed in the AVB Visualize tab
    • For all selected history events, a simple timespan can also be visualized. Note that the more events selected, the longer it will take to visualize. Start with a smaller amount to get an idea of how long this willl take. The results will be placed in the AVB Visualize tab
  • AVB Visualize:
    • This tab has several functions:
      • Any visualization in any module can be sent to this tab to allow the user a larger view (note that visualizations can also be sent to an external web browser), both options can be set from the Main\Defaults tab
      • AWS Web Portal:
        • The AWS web portal can be accessed from here; there are buttons for the Org home page as well as the Cloudshell
        • Note that users will need to log on from here even if they have logged on from the CRD module
        • This tab also has a button to send the user to the AWS Documentation website. Note that any navigation to previous pages will require the user to right-click and select the appropriate action