AWS prerequisites overview

Before creating clusters or node pools in AWS, you need to prepare your AWS VPC.

Prepare your VPC directly

You can prepare your VPC yourself by following the steps below.

  1. Configure the Google Cloud CLI

  2. Configure the AWS CLI

  3. Create an AWS VPC

  4. Create an AWS KMS key

  5. Create AWS IAM roles

  6. Create an SSH key pair

Prepare your VPC with Terraform

If you're familiar with Terraform, you can use Terraform to prepare your VPC. The Terraform scripts also create a cluster and node pool.

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