Amazon Elastic Beanstalk

Amazon Elastic Beanstalk by Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a platform-as-a-service that simplifies deploying and managing applications in the AWS cloud. You can bring environment data from Amazon Elastic Beanstalk into Brinqa to gain a unified view of your attack surface, thus strengthening your cybersecurity posture.

This document details the information you must provide for the connector to authenticate with Amazon Elastic Beanstalk and how to obtain that information from Amazon. See create a data integration for step-by-step instructions on setting up the integration.

Required connection settings

When setting up a data integration, select Amazon Elastic Beanstalk from the Connector dropdown. If you cannot find the connector in the dropdown, make sure that you have installed it first. You must provide the following information to authenticate Amazon Elastic Beanstalk with Brinqa:

• Access key ID and Secret access key: The access keys associated with the AWS account. The account must have the required read-only permissions for the Amazon Elastic Beanstalk service. For additional information, see Create an IAM user for AWS access.

• Default region: The AWS region for the connector. If not specified, the connector uses the AWS Default Region Provider Chain.

Create an IAM user for AWS access

For the Amazon Elastic Beanstalk connector to interact with the AWS SDK and retrieve data, you must provide specific AWS credentials and permissions. To create an IAM user, follow these steps:

1. Log in to your organization's AWS Management Console as an administrator.

2. Navigate to the Identity and Access Management (IAM) dashboard.

3. From the navigation pane under Access management, click Users, and then click Create user.

4. Provide a User name, leave the Provide user access to AWS Management Console option unchecked, and then click Next.

5. Click the Attach policies directly option and then click Create policy.

6. Click the JSON tab and paste the following minimum required policy:

   {
     "Version": "2012-10-17",
     "Statement": [
       {
         "Effect": "Allow",
         "Action": [
           "elasticbeanstalk:DescribeEnvironments",
           "elasticbeanstalk:DescribeEnvironmentResources",
           "elasticbeanstalk:ListTagsForResource"
         ],
         "Resource": "*"
       }
     ]
   }

7. Click Next, provide a name for the policy, and then click Create policy.

8. Back on the Add permissions page, search for and select the policy you just created, and then click Next.

9. Click Create user.

Obtain access keys

After you have created an IAM user, generate the access keys that are required for the connector. To do so, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to the IAM dashboard.

2. From the navigation pane under Access management, click Users.

3. Choose the IAM user you created in the earlier steps.

4. Click the Security credentials tab and then click Create access key.

5. Select the Application running outside AWS use case and then click Next.

6. Provide a description and then click Create access key.

   The access key ID and secret access key display. The secret access key is shown only once and cannot be retrieved again, so copy the key and save it to a secure location.

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If you do not have the permissions to create access keys, contact your AWS administrator. For additional information, see AWS documentation.

The connector authenticates using the AWS SDK's credential resolution chain. If an assume-role ARN is configured, the connector assumes that IAM role using the provided credentials. Otherwise, it uses the provided access keys directly, falling back to the AWS Default Credential Provider Chain (environment variables, ~/.aws/credentials, or EC2 instance metadata).

Additional settings

The Amazon Elastic Beanstalk connector contains additional options for specific configuration:

• Assume role ARN: ARN of an IAM role to assume. Comma-separated to assume multiple roles in the same sync.
• Session duration: Assume-role session duration in seconds. The default setting is 3600.
• Page size: The maximum number of records to get per API request. The default setting is 100. It is not recommended to go over 100.
• Parallel requests: The maximum number of parallel API requests. The default setting is 8.
• Maximum retries: The maximum number of times that the integration attempts to connect to the Amazon Elastic Beanstalk API before giving up and reporting a failure. The default setting is 10.

Types of data to retrieve

The Amazon Elastic Beanstalk connector can retrieve the following types of data from the Amazon Elastic Beanstalk API:

Table 1: Data retrieved from Amazon Elastic Beanstalk

Connector Object	Required	Maps to Data Model
BeanstalkEnvironment	Yes	Cloud Resource

info

The Amazon Elastic Beanstalk connector does not currently support operation options for the types of data it retrieves.

For detailed steps on how to view the data retrieved from Amazon Elastic Beanstalk in the Brinqa Platform, see How to view your data.

Attribute mappings

Expand the section below to view the mappings between the source and the Brinqa data model attributes.

BeanstalkEnvironment

Table 2: BeanstalkEnvironment attribute mappings

Source Field Name	SDM Attribute
DescribeEnvironmentResourcesResponse.environmentResources.loadBalancers[].name	LOAD_BALANCER_NAMES
EnvironmentDescription.applicationName	APPLICATION_NAME
EnvironmentDescription.cname	CNAME
EnvironmentDescription.dateCreated	FIRST_SEEN
EnvironmentDescription.dateUpdated	SOURCE_LAST_MODIFIED
EnvironmentDescription.endpointURL	URL
EnvironmentDescription.environmentArn	ENVIRONMENT_ARN
EnvironmentDescription.environmentArn	UID
EnvironmentDescription.environmentId	ENVIRONMENT_ID
EnvironmentDescription.environmentName	ENVIRONMENT_NAME
EnvironmentDescription.environmentName (fallback: ARN)	NAME
EnvironmentDescription.healthAsString()	HEALTH
EnvironmentDescription.healthStatusAsString()	HEALTH_STATUS
EnvironmentDescription.platformArn	PLATFORM_ARN
EnvironmentDescription.solutionStackName	SOLUTION_STACK_NAME
EnvironmentDescription.statusAsString()	SOURCE_STATUS
EnvironmentDescription.tier.name + ":" + tier.type	TIER
EnvironmentDescription.versionLabel	VERSION_LABEL
Generated (set to "AWS")	CLOUD_PROVIDER
Generated (sync capture timestamp)	LAST_CAPTURED
ListTagsForResourceResponse.resourceTags	TAGS
sync region	REGION

APIs

The Amazon Elastic Beanstalk connector uses the Amazon Elastic Beanstalk API. Specifically, it uses the following endpoints:

Table 3: Amazon Elastic Beanstalk API endpoints

Connector Object	API Endpoint
BeanstalkEnvironment	elasticbeanstalk:DescribeEnvironments elasticbeanstalk:DescribeEnvironmentResources elasticbeanstalk:ListTagsForResource

Changelog

The Amazon Elastic Beanstalk connector has undergone the following changes:

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This connector is part of a bundled release with other connectors from the same vendor. If a version shows "No change", it means that the connector version was updated for consistency as part of the bundle, but no functional changes were made to this specific connector. You can update to or skip this version without affecting your existing configuration.

Table 4: Amazon Elastic Beanstalk connector changelog

Version	Description	Date Published
3.1.0	Initial Integration+ release.	June 1st, 2026