Prerequisites

Before connecting your AWS account, make sure you have the following.

AWS account access

You need permission to deploy a CloudFormation stack in the AWS account you want to connect. The stack creates IAM roles, Lambda functions, DynamoDB tables, and EventBridge rules.

Required IAM permissions for deployment

The IAM principal (user or role) that deploys the CloudFormation stack needs the following permissions:

Placeholder

The exact IAM policy for the CloudFormation deployment role will be documented here. As a starting point, the deploying principal needs permissions to create and manage:

• CloudFormation stacks
• IAM roles and policies (scoped to the stack)
• Lambda functions
• DynamoDB tables
• EventBridge rules and schedules
• SQS queues
• SNS topics
• S3 (for Lambda deployment packages)
• CloudTrail (read access to verify setup)

A ready-to-use IAM policy document will be provided in the IAM Permissions reference.

Supported AWS regions

Uptime Scheduler can be deployed in any AWS region that supports the following services:

• AWS Lambda
• Amazon EventBridge (including EventBridge Scheduler)
• Amazon DynamoDB
• Amazon SQS
• Amazon SNS
• AWS CloudTrail

Most commercial AWS regions are supported. GovCloud and China regions are not currently supported.

Supported resource regions

Resources do not need to be in the same region as the CloudFormation stack. The TagEventProcessor monitors CloudTrail events globally by default.

Timezone

During CloudFormation deployment you specify a timezone for your account (e.g. Europe/London, America/New_York). All schedule times are interpreted in this timezone. Daylight saving time transitions are handled automatically.

You can view and update the configured timezone in the Dashboard Settings.