AWS deployment parameters

This page documents the AWS parameters you need to configure when deploying Automation Suite to AWS.

Important:

The Template-hosting S3 Region parameter must match exactly the AWS region in which you try to deploy. If the region does not match, the deployment does not succeed.

Keep the default settings for the parameters labeled Quick Start S3 bucket name, Quick Start S3 bucket Region, and Quick Start S3 key prefix. If these input parameters are altered, the deployment does not succeed.

Table 1. Availability Zone Configuration

Parameter label (name)	Template	Default value	Description
Availability Zones	New VPC New VPC, in-depth configurable	Requires input	Choose up to three Availability Zones to use for the VPC subnets.
Number of Availability Zones	New VPC New VPC, in-depth configurable Existing VPC	2	Choose the number of Availability Zones to use in the VPC. For a new VPC, this must match the number you set using the Availability Zones parameter. For an existing VPC, you can set two or three Availability Zones.
Deploy Bastion host	New VPC, in-depth configurable Existing VPC	true	Deploy a Bastion host inside the public subnet.

Table 2. Network Configuration

Parameter label (name)	Template	Default value	Description
VPC CIDR	Existing VPC	10.0.0.0/16	VPC CIDR block, in the format x.x.0.0/16.
VPC ID	Existing VPC	Requires Input	ID of the existing VPC.
Public Subnets IDs	Existing VPC	Blank string	List of public subnet IDs where the internet-facing Load Balancer and the Bastion host will be deployed
Private Subnets IDs	Existing VPC	Requires Input	List of private subnet IDs.

Table 3. Automation Suite Instance Configuration

Parameter label (name)	Template	Default value	Description
Instance key pair	New VPC New VPC, in-depth configurable Existing VPC	Requires input	Existing key pair to connect to virtual machine (VM) instances.
Instance AMI id	New VPC, in-depth configurable Existing VPC	Blank string	AMI ID to use for the creation of the EC2 instances of the cluster. When the AMI ID is not specified, the default version deployed is RHEL 8.3 for non GPU VM and RHEL 8.2 for GPU VM.
GPU instance AMI id	New VPC, in-depth configurable Existing VPC	Blank string	AMI ID to use for the creation of the GPU-enabled EC2 instance.
IAM Role ARN	New VPC, in-depth configurable Existing VPC	Blank string	ARN of a pre-deployed IAM Role with sufficient permissions for the deployment.
IAM Role name	New VPC, in-depth configurable Existing VPC	Blank string	Name of a pre-deployed IAM Role with sufficient permissions for the deployment

Table 4. Automation Suite Deployment Configuration

Parameter label (name)	Template	Default value	Description
Deployment Type	New VPC New VPC, in-depth configurable Existing VPC	Single Node	Install Automation Suite in single-node evaluation mode or multi-node HA-ready production mode.
Enable cluster backup	New VPC – backup is enabled by default but not exposed as a parameter New VPC, in-depth configurable Existing VPC	true	Enable the cluster backup.
Load Balancer	New VPC New VPC, in-depth configurable Existing VPC	ALB	Select either an Application Load Balancer (ALB) or a Network Load Balancer (NLB). If you select a Network Load Balancer, then you must configure the TLS certificates manually post deployment.
Perform Installation	Existing VPC	true	Perform the Automation Suite installation.
Automation Suite Version	New VPC New VPC, in-depth configurable Existing VPC	e.g. 21.10.0	Automation Suite version to install.
Automation Suite Product Selection	New VPC	Default platform	Choose Default platform to install Orchestrator, Action Center, Test Manager, Insights, Automation Hub, Automation Ops. Choose Entire platform to additionally install Apps, AI Center, Task Mining, Document Understanding.
Installer download URL	New VPC, in-depth configurable Existing VPC	Blank string	Custom URL for installer download. Leave empty to use the UiPath version.
Add GPU enabled VMs	New VPC New VPC, in-depth configurable Existing VPC	false	Choose true to add a GPU-enabled VM to the deployment.
Extra configuration keys	New VPC, in-depth configurable Existing VPC	Blank string	Extra configuration keys to add to the cluster configuration.
Validity of the self signed certificate	New VPC, in-depth configurable Existing VPC	1825	Validity, in days, of the self-signed certificate that the deployment uses to encrypt traffic inside the VPC.

Table 5. Automation Suite Services

Parameter label (name)	Template	Default value	Description
Service install flags (multiple)	New VPC, in-depth configurable Existing VPC	true	Choose if a specific service is installed in the cluster.

Table 6. DNS or SSL Configuration

Parameter label (name)	Templates	Default value	Description
Hosting FQDN	New VPC New VPC, in-depth configurable Existing VPC	Requires input	Fully qualified domain name (FQDN) for Automation Suite. This must be either a subdomain or root domain of the of ID of Route 53 hosted zone parameter.
ID of Route 53 hosted zone	New VPC New VPC, in-depth configurable Existing VPC	Requires input	ID of the Route 53-hosted zone.
ARN of the ACM hosted certificate to use	New VPC, in-depth configurable Existing VPC	Blank string	ARN of the certificate present in the ACM (Amazon Certificate Manager) to use with the ALB.
Use Internal Load Balancer	New VPC, in-depth configurable Existing VPC	false	Choose if you want to use an internal load balancer.

Table 7. RDS Configuration

Parameter label (name)	Template	Default value	Description
Engine of SQL Server deployed on RDS	New VPC, in-depth configurable Existing VPC	sqlserver-se	Choose the RDS Microsoft SQL engine.
Version of SQL Server deployed on RDS	New VPC, in-depth configurable Existing VPC	15.00	Choose the RDS Microsoft SQL version.
KMS Key Id used to encrypt RDS storage	New VPC, in-depth configurable Existing VPC	Blank string	KMS Key ID to use for the encryption of the RDS storage.

Table 8. Quick Start S3 bucket configuration

Parameter label (name)	Template	Default value	Description
Template folder	New VPC New VPC, in-depth configurable Existing VPC	aws-quickstart-sf-v2021-10-2/	You must not change the value.
Template-hosting S3 Region	New VPC New VPC, in-depth configurable Existing VPC	us-east-1	Must match the region where you deploy the resources in AWS. For example, if you want to deploy in us-east-1, select us-east-1.