Guides
Install, connect, and run SecurITPosture
A Vesta engineer installs the appliance with you. These guides say what to prepare, what happens during the install, and how to run and support it day to day. Every guide downloads as a PDF.
Install the appliance
Connect AWS
- Connect AWS with the instance roleThe recommended way when the appliance runs in your AWS account, with the read policy and what each check reads.
- Connect AWS with IAM Roles AnywhereThe way to connect when the appliance runs outside AWS, using a certificate.
- Connect AWS with an access keyThe last resort. Not recommended for federal customers.
- Change how an account connectsMove an account to another way to connect, or reconnect an account added before the three ways existed.
Run the product
- Administrator guideUsers and roles, AI settings, support access, backups, updates, and integrations.
- Working with the AIWhat the AI drafts, the final review, the sign off, and what confidence means.
- Getting updatesThe support site, downloading and verifying a release, and applying it.
- SupportHow to request help and what Vesta support access can and cannot do.