Knowledge base

• Getting Started

  If you are new to Kion, check out these articles!

• Foundational Guides

  Courses from the Kion Training team.

• General Administration

  Administrative information and best practices that apply to all cloud service providers.

• AWS Administration

  Everything you need to know to manage AWS accounts.

• Azure Administration

  Everything you need to know to manage Azure subscriptions and resource groups.

• Google Cloud Administration

  Everything you need to know to manage Google Cloud projects.

• Oracle Administration

  Everything you need to know to manage Oracle Cloud Infrastructure accounts.

• Accessing Kion

  How to manage who can access the Kion platform.

• OUs

  OUs are the building blocks of Kion. Build a hierarchy that reflects your unique organizational structure.

• Projects

  Projects are the smallest unit of organization within Kion. Create projects to manage your cloud accounts.

• Labels

  Labels make it easy to search, filter, and report on any attribute that is important to your organization.

• Cloud Rules

  Cloud rules are collections of cloud-specific resources that can be applied to cloud accounts.

• Cloud Accounts

  Add AWS accounts, Azure subscriptions and resource groups, and Google Cloud projects to Kion.

• Accessing Cloud Accounts

  How to manage who can access accounts in cloud provider consoles.

• Cloud Resources

  Manage your cloud resources and reserved instances.

• Financials

  Use project budgets, OU thresholds, and financial enforcements to analyze and control spending.

• Automation

  How to automate workflows.

• Compliance

  Analyze resources and enforce standards to ensure compliance to security guidelines and common compliance frameworks.

• Requests

  Control project creation and access, cloud rule exemptions, and cloud access role exemptions.

• Reporting

  Create financial, access, user, and account reports.

• Settings

  Configure and customize Kion.

• Troubleshooting

  Find solutions to common problems.

• Integrations

  Integrations make it easy to use third-party tools along with Kion.

• FAQ

  Frequently asked questions answered by our developers.

• Release Notes

  See our latest features or revisit old ones.

• Shared Content

  Starting point for Kion shared Cloud Rules, IAM policies, CloudFormation, etc.