Only complete this section if you are running the workshop on your own. If you are at an AWS hosted event (such as re:Invent, Kubecon, Immersion Day, etc), go to Start the workshop at an AWS event. You are responsible for the cost of the AWS services used while running this workshop in your AWS account.
For this workshop we will be utilizing N. Virginia (us-east-1) AWS region, but you can use which ever you prefer, just be sure to use the the same region in all further steps. You can change the region in the AWS console’s top right corner.
Welcome to the Self Guided Setup section! This workshop requires an AWS account where there is IAM user/identity that has proper permissions to set up the necessary AWS components to work through the workshop.
Here is a preview of what we will be setting up: