Setting up your watsonx.governance environment on AWS

Before you begin

Subscribe to watsonx.governance as a Service on AWS. You receive an email when your order is complete.

If you're deploying watsonx.governance in the Mumbai (ap-south-1) region, provision one of the following databases:

• Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. For more information, see Working with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL in the AWS documentation.
• IBM Db2 deployed on your AWS infrastructure. For more information, see Amazon RDS for Db2 resources in the AWS documentation.

If you're deploying watsonx.governance in the Mumbai (ap-south-1) region, consider provisioning watsonx.ai Studio as a Service and watsonx.ai Runtimes as a Service within your AWS infrastructure. You need these services to leverage all the features and capabilities of watsonx.governance.

Procedure

To set up your watsonx.governance environment on AWS, do the following steps:

1. In the confirmation email for your watsonx.governance subscription, click Subscription overview.
2. On the watsonx.governance as Service tile, verify that the status is Active, and then click Manage.
3. Click Launch.
4. On the watsonx.governance as a Service tile, click Assign. If Assign is not available, ask a user with the Service Owner or Service Admin role to assign users to the instance after you provision it.
5. Link one or more accounts to the subscription, and then click Next.
6. Provide these fields:
   • Select a Region.
   • Type a Service Name for the instance. This service name is the name of the first (dev) environment that is created for you.
   • Choose whether to include sample data. The sample data is intended for nonproduction environments.
   • Select the base currency to use in the Governance console.
7. Click Submit and provision. The provisioning process takes approximately 90-120 minutes. You receive an email when the instance is ready.
8. In the welcome email, click Access instance to view your instance. Or, on the subscription page for watsonx.governance, click View instances, and then click the Instance URL. The console page for the instance is displayed. An instance is ready to use when the status is Running. You can use the console page to view information about the instance, such as usage statistics and the URL for Governance console.
9. Click Launch and choose an option.

What to do next

If you're deploying watsonx.governance in the Mumbai (ap-south-1) region, set up the integration with Governance console. For more information, see Integrating IBM watsonx.governance with Governance console

• Provisioning instances for watsonx.governance as a Service on AWS
• Managing IAM access for watsonx.governance as a Service on AWS
• Securing your data in watsonx.governance as a Service on AWS
• Customizing the hostname in the Governance console URL for watsonx.governance as a Service on AWS
• Integrating watsonx.governance as a Service on AWS with Governance Console
• Integrating watsonx.governance as a Service on AWS with Amazon SageMaker
• Managing your watsonx.governance environment on AWS (ongoing maintenance)

Parent topic: Setting up the IBM watsonx platform for administrators