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title: "Getting Started"
slug: "aws-getting-started"
updated: 2022-07-18T16:21:11Z
published: 2022-07-18T16:21:11Z
canonical: "help.nucleussec.com/aws-getting-started"
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# Getting Started

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) connector enables you to easily synchronize and ingest data from multiple AWS services, accounts, and regions to your Nucleus project.

This connector leverages cross-account roles to:

- Maintain an up-to-date asset inventory of:
  - EC2 instances (taking into account terminated or stopped instances).
  - ECR container repositories and images.
- Ingest vulnerabilities on:
  - EC2 instances (Inspector 2 and Inspector Classic).
  - ECR container images (Inspector 2 and ECR Basic Scanning).
- Enrich scan results with additional asset information, such as Open Ports & Services, or OS versions.
- Create powerful automation rules leveraging additional metadata synchronized from EC2 and ECR.
- Upload asset and vulnerability data to S3 buckets.

## Connector setup checklist

Follow the steps in this checklist to successfully set up this connector:

1. [Set permissions](/v1/docs/aws-setting-permissions) Set up cross-account roles to grant Nucleus access to your organization's AWS accounts and resources.
2. [Set up instance sync](/v1/docs/aws-instance-sync) Synchronize the available AWS instances and resources across regions and accounts.
3. Configure the connector

Configure the AWS connector to pull data from any of the following AWS services:
  - [Inspector 2 (EC2 Continuous Scanning) via Security Hub](/v1/docs/inspector-2-ec2-continuous-scanning)
  - [ECR (Enhanced Scanning) via Security Hub](/v1/docs/ecr-enhanced-scanning)
  - [Inspector Classic](/v1/docs/inspector-classic)
  - [ECR (Basic Scanning)](/v1/docs/ecr-basic-scanning)
4. [Configure data upload to S3](/v1/docs/s3-data-upload) Configure the AWS connector to upload all asset and finding data from your Nucleus project to S3 buckets.