Getting the CLI

You can control AWS using the web console, but your control of AWS will be more precise if you do everything from the command line with the AWS command-line client.

You should follow the instructions provided by AWS to install the command-line client on your system (or by using your systems package manager) using the instructions found at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/installing.html).

Once you have installed the command-line client, run the aws configure command to configure the CLI with your credentials. This command will update the aws config files in your home directory.

At this stage, you should choose an AWS region for your cluster. For testing and experimentation, it makes sense for you to choose one that is located relatively close to your location. Doing so will improve latency when you access your instances with ssh or connect to the Kubernetes API.