AWS Key Pair pattern-based discovery

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title: AWS Key Pair pattern-based discovery
description: Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns finds AWS key pairs in your cloud environment. Discovering some of these resources might require updating to the latest version of the Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns application from the ServiceNow Store.
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# AWS Key Pair pattern-based discovery

Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns finds AWS key pairs in your cloud environment. Discovering some of these resources might require updating to the latest version of the Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns application from the ServiceNow Store.

## Pattern-based discovery and mapping requirements

-   **Verify the AWS discovery prerequisites**

    For more information, see the prerequisites section in [AWS discovery using patterns](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-operations-management/discovery-and-service-mapping-patterns/data-discovered-aws-patterns.md).

-   **Configure the Discovery schedule to support GovCloud**

    Discovering AWS GovCloud \(US\) accounts requires using a datacenter URL when setting up an AWS service account. For more information, see [Create AWS service accounts](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-operations-management/create-aws-service-accounts.md).


## Data collected by Discovery during horizontal discovery

Discovery populates the data in the CMDB when running the Amazon AWS - Key Pair \(LP\) pattern.

<table id="table_mkf_2hc_dgc"><thead><tr><th>

Field

</th><th>

Description

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Name \[name\]

</td><td>

Name of the key pair.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Object ID \[object\_id\]

</td><td>

Name of the key pair.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Finger Print \[finger\_print\]

</td><td>

The fingerprint of the key pair.If you used [CreateKeyPair](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_CreateKeyPair.html) to create the key pair, this value is the SHA-1 digest of the DER encoded private key. If you used ImportKeyPair to provide AWS the public key, this value is the MD5 public key fingerprint as specified in section 4 of RFC 4716.

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>## CI relationships

The Amazon AWS - Key Pair \(LP\) pattern creates the following relationships and references to support AWS Key Pair discovery. References link to records in other tables and don't appear in the CI Relationship \[cmdb\_rel\_ci\] table.

|CI|Relationship|CI|
|---|------------|---|
|Servers \[cmdb\_ci\_server\]|Hosted on::Hosts|AWS Datacenter \[cmdb\_ci\_aws\_datacenter\]|

|CI|Field|Referenced CI|
|---|-----|-------------|
|Key Value \[cmdb\_key\_value\]|Configuration item \[configuration\_item\]|Cloud Key Pair \[cmdb\_ci\_cloud\_key\_pair\]|

## AWS Tag discovery

The Amazon AWS - Key Pair \(LP\) pattern collects tags and populates them in the Key Value \[cmdb\_key\_value\] table.

|Field|Description|
|-----|-----------|
|Key \[key\]|Tag name.|
|Value \[value\]|Tag value.|
|Configuration item \[configuration\_item\]|References the Cloud Key Pair \[cmdb\_ci\_cloud\_key\_pair\] table.|

**Parent Topic:**[AWS discovery using patterns](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-operations-management/discovery-and-service-mapping-patterns/data-discovered-aws-patterns.md)