Amazon EKS Create and Delete Cluster

External

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/getting-started-console.html

Internal

• Amazon EKS Operations

Procedure

• Create a dedicated IAM role. The use case should be "EKS - Cluster".
  • Make sure the IAM use you are going to call into with has sts:AssumeRole for the IAM role.
• Create a VPC and record VpcId, SecurityGroups, SubnetId
• Create the cluster. From the Console → EKS → Create Cluster:
  • Cluster Service Role
  • Next
  • VPC
  • Subnets (all existing are preselected)
  • Security groups: use Control Plane Security Group.
  • Custer Endpoint Access