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Managing Accounts

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Managing Accounts

On the Accounts page, you can see all the accounts you have permission to view. On this page, you can perform a number of actions to manage and modify your accounts.

Editing an Account

  1. Navigate to Accounts > All Accounts.
  2. Click the ellipsis menu next to an account and select Edit.
  3. Make any desired changes.
  4. Click Update Account.

Moving an Account to a new Project

  1. Navigate to Accounts > All Accounts.
  2. Click the ellipsis menu next to an account, and select Move Account.
  3. Select the new parent project.
  4. Select how to handle the accounts financial data.
  5. Click Move Account.

Any cloud rules and cloud access roles that were applied by the previous parent project are removed from the account. Any cloud rules and cloud access roles applied to the new parent project are applied to the account. Moving accounts between projects may affect who has permissions to manage, view, and interact with the account.

Changing the Billing Source on an Account

For information on changing the billing source that an account is associated with, see Managing Billing Sources.

Accounts and the Account Cache

When adding accounts to Kion, you can add them to a project or the account cache. Adding accounts to the account cache is useful if you want to preload your accounts and attach them to projects later on. However, to access accounts through Kion, they must be attached to a project.

For more information, see The Account Cache

Additional Configuration Options

While most accounts are managed the same way in Kion, there are a few special cases. These options affect accounts, but are not configured through the account wizard.

Account Creation

Depending on the types of accounts you want to manage, you may need to configure the billing source to allow account creation through Kion. For more information, see:

AWS GovCloud Accounts

You can include spending from any linked GovCloud accounts in the financial reports for your AWS commercial accounts without having Kion manage the GovCloud account. For more information, see Reporting AWS GovCloud Spend.

Deleting an Account

When you delete an account in Kion, the account is removed from Kion, but remains in your cloud provider's console. This action cannot be undone. No webhooks will be run upon deletion, and any accrued spend for the month in which you delete it will no longer be visible within Kion. Any compliance findings for the account will be archived upon account deletion.

To delete an account:

  1. Navigate to Accounts > All Accounts.
  2. Click the ellipsis menu next to the account you want to delete and select Delete.
  3. Acknowledge that you understand:
  4. Click Delete.