AWS
An AWS account is needed to create and manage cluster on AWS. The following criteria must be met:
- An account on AWS.
- A Stakater user (ask Stakater team for the email to use for this user) with admin privileges on a separate project (Recommended). See the required permissions for AWS if you do not want to grant admin privilege.
- Resource limits must be applied on the account and the following resources must be allowed to be created.
| Type | Limit |
|---|---|
| Virtual Machines | Varies. The limit should be 12 initially. (Initial deployment is 3 control plane + 3 infra + 3 worker) |
| Regional vCPUs | The limit should be A x B x 2 , where A = no. of VMS (worker + infra + control plane), B = vCPUs per VM) |
| Elastic IPs (EIPs) | 5 |
| Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) | 5 |
| Elastic Load Balancing (ELB/NLB) | 3 |
| NAT Gateways | 5 |
| Elastic Network Interfaces (ENIs) | At least 12 |
| VPC Gateway | 20 |
| S3 buckets | 99 |
| Security Groups | 250 |
| Machine Specifications | 6 machines of 8x32x120G |
| Region | Region will be identified by the customer |
Instance Types
SAAP offers the following worker node types and sizes on AWS:
General Purpose
- m5.xlarge (4 vCPU, 16 GiB)
- m5.2xlarge (8 vCPU, 32 GiB)
- m5.4xlarge (16 vCPU, 64 GiB)
Memory Optimized
- r5.xlarge (4 vCPU, 32 GiB)
- r5.2xlarge (8 vCPU, 64 GiB)
- r5.4xlarge (16 vCPU, 128 GiB)
Compute Optimized
- c5.2xlarge (8 vCPU, 16 GiB)
- c5.4xlarge (16 vCPU, 32 GiB)
Autoscaling
Node autoscaling is available on AWS. You can configure the autoscaler option to automatically scale the number of machines in a cluster.