AWS accounts are included in a project through a project variable of the type Amazon Web Services Account. Before you create an AWS account Variable, you need to create an AWS account in Octopus:

The Add Variable window is then displayed and lists all the AWS accounts.

Select the AWS account you want to access from the project to assign it to the variable:

AWS account variable properties

The AWS account Variable also exposes the following properties that you can reference in a PowerShell script:

Accessing the properties in a script

Each of the above properties can be referenced in PowerShell.

# For an account with a variable name of 'aws account'

# Using $OctopusParameters
Write-Host 'AwsAccount.Id=' $OctopusParameters["aws account"]
Write-Host 'AwsAccount.AccessKey=' $OctopusParameters["aws account.AccessKey"]

# Directly as a variable
Write-Host 'AwsAccount.Id=' #{aws account}
Write-Host 'AwsAccount.AccessKey=' #{aws account.AccessKey}

Add an AWS account to Octopus

For instructions to set up an AWS account in Octopus, see AWS accounts.

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