kubernetes/docs/getting-started-guides/aws.md

Getting started on AWS

Prerequisites

1. You need an AWS account. Visit http://aws.amazon.com to get started
2. Install and configure AWS Command Line Interface

Run from a binary release

1. Download the binary release
2. Unpack the archive and cd kubernetes
3. Turn up the cluster:

export KUBERNETES_PROVIDER=aws
cluster/kube-up.sh

The script above relies on AWS S3 to deploy the software to instances running in EC2.

Running examples

Take a look at next steps

Tearing down the cluster

cd kubernetes
cluster/kube-down.sh

Cloud Formation

There is a contributed example from CoreOS using Cloud Formation.