Creating your first EKS cluster

Please verify you are using the credentials for the username you created as part of the prerequisites using the following command:

$ aws sts get-caller-identity
{    "UserId": <MYUSERNAME>",
    "Account": "11112222333",
    "Arn": "arn:aws:sts::11112222333<MYUSERNAME>/IAM_ROLE>"}

Option 1: Creating your EKS cluster with the AWS console

To start this exercise, open a browser, go to the URL https://aws.amazon.com/, and sign in to your account using the username/credentials you created as part of the prerequisites.

Once you have logged in, complete the following steps:

1. Type IAM in the search bar and select IAM | Roles from the resulting search results.
2. You should now create a cluster Service role by clicking on the Create Role button, which will allow the cluster to make calls to other AWS Services. It...