Getting ready

All the operations mentioned here require an AWS account and an AWS user with a policy that has permission to use the related services. If you don't have one, go to https://aws.amazon.com/account/ and create one.

AWS provides two main options when it comes to running Kubernetes on it. You can consider using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) if you'd like to manage your deployment completely and have specific powerful instance requirements. Otherwise, it's highly recommended to consider using managed services such as Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS).