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Kion automates CloudOps with a single platform providing policy-based identity, FinOps, and compliance for multicloud infrastructure. Kion helps organizations achieve governance by default through improved visibility, automation, guardrails, and guidance across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI environments. This helps enterprises reduce complexity, eliminate chaos, and minimize manual work so they can innovate faster with less risk.
Wherever they are on their cloud journey, Kion empowers organizations to confidently provision accounts, maintain financial control, and ensure compliance with security regulations. Kion serves leading commercial, higher education, and government agencies including Indeed, Verizon, NASA, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
For enterprise pricing, contact our team at info@kion.io .
Kion - Privileged Access Requirements
Kion is a cloud governance and management platform that requires privileged access to AWS accounts to provide comprehensive cloud resource management, compliance monitoring, and automated governance. The platform creates and manages cloud resources across multiple AWS accounts on behalf of organizations, which necessitates elevated permissions for proper operation.
IAM Resource | Purpose | Security Justification |
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TaskRole | Primary cloud management execution role for Kion ECS tasks. Enables comprehensive AWS service integration, CloudFormation stack lifecycle management, and secure cross-account role assumption for multi-account cloud governance. | Required for Kion's core function as a cloud management platform. Manages infrastructure deployments, compliance scanning, and resource provisioning across customer AWS environments. |
ExtractRoleNameLambdaExecutionRole | Lambda execution role for parsing and validating existing IAM role ARNs when customers provide pre-existing application roles instead of creating new ones. | Ensures secure integration with customer-managed IAM roles while maintaining proper access controls. This role is not created with greenfield deployments. |
ECSTaskExecutionRole | Standard AWS ECS task execution role providing container lifecycle management, Amazon ECR image access, and CloudWatch logging capabilities for the Kion application containers. | Standard AWS service role with minimal permissions required for ECS container execution. |
CreateSLRLambdaExecutionRole | Lambda execution role for creating AWS ECS service-linked roles required for ECS cluster and service operations. | Creates only AWS-managed service roles necessary for ECS functionality - cannot create custom roles. |
DBMigrationTaskLambdaExecutionRole | Lambda execution role for database schema migrations and upgrades during Kion application deployments and version updates. | Required for maintaining database integrity during application lifecycle management. |
EnvFileLambdaExecutionRole | Lambda execution role for securely managing encrypted environment configuration files stored in S3 buckets. | Handles secure configuration management with encryption for sensitive application settings. |
EcsServiceRestartFunctionExecutionRole | Lambda execution role enabling automated ECS service restart functionality during maintenance windows and application updates. | Provides automated maintenance capabilities to ensure high availability during updates. |
FederationUserPolicy | IAM policy enabling federated user management and access key lifecycle operations for users accessing managed AWS accounts through Kion. | Cloud Access Management: Kion manages user access to cloud resources across multiple accounts, requiring user and access key management capabilities for federated access. |
HighSideManagedPolicy | Managed policy for high-security and air-gapped environments, providing controlled role assumption capabilities with additional security restrictions. | Designed for government and high-security environments with restricted cross-account access patterns. |
ParameterStoreManagedPolicy | Managed policy providing secure access to specific AWS Systems Manager parameters containing encrypted database credentials and configuration values. | Secure credential management using AWS-native parameter store with encryption. |
ECSExecManagedPolicy | Managed policy enabling AWS ECS Exec functionality for container debugging, troubleshooting, and maintenance operations. | Optional debugging capability - can be disabled in production environments if not needed. |
Highlights
- Identity & Account Management - Get greater visibility into your cloud resources and users. Spend less time provisioning, managing cloud access and accounts.
- FinOps - Align your budget to your organizational structure and projects. Prevent cost overruns with unique enforcement actions, and identify savings opportunities.
- Continuous Compliance - Automate compliance with robust, inheritable access policies. Take the manual effort out of ensuring adherence and restricting use of non-compliant services.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/12 months |
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Kion Platform Eval | Paid evaluation access to Kion Platform for one month (not for production use) | $4,500.00 |
Kion Private Offer | Kion Private Offer - Full product description included in Private Offers attached documentation | $30,000.00 |
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Kion ECS Deployment
- Amazon ECS
Container image
Containers are lightweight, portable execution environments that wrap server application software in a filesystem that includes everything it needs to run. Container applications run on supported container runtimes and orchestration services, such as Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Both eliminate the need for you to install and operate your own container orchestration software by managing and scheduling containers on a scalable cluster of virtual machines.
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Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug where "Amortized - Attributed" and "Amortized - NotAttributed" spend would not deduct credits when selected in financial settings.
- Fixed a bug where dimensioning by tag in spend reports would result in a 500 error.
- Fixed a bug that prevented emailing a spend report filtered to "Last 12 Months".
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Step 1. Register your Kion Support Account: https://tinyurl.com/kion-registerÂ
Step 2. Follow the Kion ECS Deployment guide here.
https://support.kion.io/hc/en-us/articles/25818192552589-AWS-ECS-Deployment-OverviewÂ
Container Marketplace installs should use the marketplace repository instead of the public ECR repository.
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Kion offers both standard and premium support options. Premium support includes additional features such as regular health checks and training offerings. Customers can access our Kion Success Center at https://support.kion.io to view user documentation and create a support ticket.
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