AWS datacenter pattern-based discovery

  • Release version: Australia
  • Updated March 12, 2026
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    • Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns finds AWS Regions for your AWS account on your cloud environment. Discovering some of these resources may 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 section in AWS discovery using patterns.

    Data collected by Discovery during horizontal discovery

    Discovery populates the data in the CMDB when running the Amazon AWS Datacenter discovery pattern.

    Table 1. Cloud Service Account [cmdb_ci_cloud_service_account]
    Field Description
    Account Id [account_id] Unique identifier (ID) for the AWS service account.
    Object ID [object_id] Unique ID for the AWS service account.
    Datacenter Type [datacenter_type] Type of datacenter.

    The value is set to AWS Datacenter [cmdb_ci_aws_datacenter].
    Table 2. AWS Datacenter [cmdb_ci_aws_datacenter]
    Field Description
    Name [name] The AWS Region code.

    For example: us-east-1 or eu-central-1.
    Object ID [object_id] The AWS Region code.

    For example: us-east-1 or eu-central-1.
    Region [region] The AWS Region code.

    For example: us-east-1 or eu-central-1.

    CI relationships

    The Amazon AWS Datacenter discovery pattern creates these relationships to support AWS datacenter discovery.

    CI Relationship CI
    AWS Datacenter [cmdb_ci_aws_datacenter] Hosted on::Hosts Cloud Service Account [cmdb_ci_cloud_service_account]