Getting started with AWS B2B Data Interchange (B2Bi)

To use AWS B2B Data Interchange, you create profiles, transformers, capabilities, and partnerships. This topic describes how to create and configure these basic building blocks for this service.

To build and run your EDI-based workflows on AWS B2B Data Interchange, you need to create a profile, transformer, trading capability, and partnership. Follow the instructions in Setting up or use the Quick setup to easily create each of these resources, which enable you to connect with your trading partners and start transforming EDI data into JSON and XML to simplify your downstream integrations.

Topics

• Sign up for an AWS account
• Create a user with administrative access
• Configure an Amazon S3 bucket
• Setting up
• Quick setup

After you create the necessary objects (profile, transformer, capability and partnership), your trading partners can use AWS Transfer Family or any connectivity option to route incoming EDI documents to the configured input folder, where they will be picked up and transformed by B2Bi. You and your partners can see recent activity in CloudWatch Logs.

Inbound EDI files automatically create a return acknowledgement to the trading partner, in the form of an Amazon EventBridge event. For details, see AWS B2B Data Interchange acknowledgements.

Sign up for an AWS account

If you do not have an AWS account, complete the following steps to create one.

To sign up for an AWS account

1. Open https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup.

2. Follow the online instructions.

   Part of the sign-up procedure involves receiving a phone call and entering a verification code on the phone keypad.

   When you sign up for an AWS account, an AWS account root user is created. The root user has access to all AWS services and resources in the account. As a security best practice, assign administrative access to a user, and use only the root user to perform tasks that require root user access.

AWS sends you a confirmation email after the sign-up process is complete. At any time, you can view your current account activity and manage your account by going to https://aws.amazon.com/ and choosing My Account.

Create a user with administrative access

After you sign up for an AWS account, secure your AWS account root user, enable AWS IAM Identity Center, and create an administrative user so that you don't use the root user for everyday tasks.

Secure your AWS account root user

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console as the account owner by choosing Root user and entering your AWS account email address. On the next page, enter your password.

   For help signing in by using root user, see Signing in as the root user in the AWS Sign-In User Guide.

2. Turn on multi-factor authentication (MFA) for your root user.

   For instructions, see Enable a virtual MFA device for your AWS account root user (console) in the IAM User Guide.

Create a user with administrative access

1. Enable IAM Identity Center.

   For instructions, see Enabling AWS IAM Identity Center in the AWS IAM Identity Center User Guide.

2. In IAM Identity Center, grant administrative access to a user.

   For a tutorial about using the IAM Identity Center directory as your identity source, see Configure user access with the default IAM Identity Center directory in the AWS IAM Identity Center User Guide.

Sign in as the user with administrative access

• To sign in with your IAM Identity Center user, use the sign-in URL that was sent to your email address when you created the IAM Identity Center user.

  For help signing in using an IAM Identity Center user, see Signing in to the AWS access portal in the AWS Sign-In User Guide.

Assign access to additional users

1. In IAM Identity Center, create a permission set that follows the best practice of applying least-privilege permissions.

   For instructions, see Create a permission set in the AWS IAM Identity Center User Guide.

2. Assign users to a group, and then assign single sign-on access to the group.

   For instructions, see Add groups in the AWS IAM Identity Center User Guide.

Configure an Amazon S3 bucket

You need to have an Amazon S3 bucket set up and ready to use. B2Bi requires buckets for storing input, output, and instruction documents. For details, see Getting started with Amazon S3.

• Maximum EDI (electronic data interchange) file size is 50 MB.

• The Amazon S3 bucket must be in the same AWS account as the B2Bi user.

• The Amazon S3 bucket must be in the same region as the B2Bi user.