Prepare an Amazon Web Services account for setting up ABAP on-premise system

Navigate to https://aws.amazon.com and sign up for an AWS account if you don’t have one already

Navigate into the AWS management console

In the AWS console, enter the Identity and Access Management section (IAM section)

Create an AWS user, e.g. called sap_cal_user and download the access key and secret key of this user. These credentials you need to provide later on in the SAP Cloud Appliance Library in order to be able to access the AWS instance

Enter the user name

Download the credentials and click on ‘Close’

Create a group, e.g. called sap_cal_group

Select Administrator Access as Policy Template for the newly created group. This will assign administrator permissions to the group.

Assign the newly created AWS user to this group.