Get Started with AWS Launch Wizard for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

This section contains information to help you set up your environment to deploy Amazon EKS with Launch Wizard. When your environment is set up, you can deploy Amazon EKS application with Launch Wizard by following the steps and parameter specification details provided in this section.

Access AWS Launch Wizard

You can launch AWS Launch Wizard from the AWS Launch Wizard console located at https://console.aws.amazon.com/launchwizard.

Specialized knowledge

This deployment requires a moderate level of familiarity with AWS services. If you’re new to AWS, see Getting Started Resource Center and AWS Training and Certification. These sites provide materials for learning how to design, deploy, and operate your infrastructure and applications on the AWS Cloud.

This Launch Wizard assumes familiarity with Kubernetes concepts and usage.

Amazon Web Services account

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.

Technical requirements

Before you start the Launch Wizard deployment, review the following information and ensure that your account is properly configured. Otherwise, deployment might fail.

Service Quotas

If necessary, request service quota increases for the following resources. You might need to request increases if your existing deployment currently uses these resources, and if this Launch Wizard deployment could result in exceeding the default quotas. The Service Quotas console displays your usage and quotas for some aspects of some services. For more information, see What is Service Quotas? and AWS service quotas.

Existing VPC Service Quotas:

Resource	Default quota	This deployment uses
Elastic IP Addresses	5 per Region	1
VPC security groups	300 per account	3
IAM roles	1,000 per account	9
Auto Scaling groups	200 per Region	2
Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances (Standard)	5 per Region	4

New VPC Service Quotas:

Resource	Default quota	This deployment uses
VPCs	5 per Region	1
Elastic IP Addresses	5 per Region	4
Internet Gateway	5 per Region	1
VPC security groups	300 per account	3
IAM roles	1,000 per account	9
Auto Scaling groups	200 per Region	2
Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances (Standard)	5 per Region	4

IAM permissions

Before deploying the Launch Wizard application, you must sign in to the AWS Management Console with IAM permissions for the resources that the templates deploy. The AdministratorAccess managed policy within IAM provides sufficient permissions, although your organization may choose to use a custom policy with more restrictions. For more information, see AWS managed policies for job functions.