aws-shell VS 9-ways-2-EKS

While at it - I heartily recommend you to install aws-shell which boosts your aws cli productivity by providing graphical autocompletion, hints and shortcuts as shown in the image below. I only discovered it recently myself and it's definitely a game changer!

AWS-shell is super handy for learning the CLI.

aws-shell will improve your life :) https://github.com/awslabs/aws-shell

With aws-shell you're able to quickly run commands against any AWS API from your local terminal with great auto-completion. I use it very regularly and it reduces the need to jump to the documentation. You can find it on Github but can also install it easily via your favorite package manager like homebrew.

If so the region config is explained here: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-shell#configuration

Creating an EKS cluster can be done with (relatively) simple AWS CLI commands. There are a lot of commands to run, and while they can be wrapped in a script and parameterized - it's still not a very good solution. The good thing is that we don't need anything beside AWS CLI. Well, some CloudFormation, but it's AWS-provided. The worst part is that such a script isn't idempotent. Once we create all (or some of) these resources - the script isn't going to work. Also removing all the multiple resources we've created is a lot of manual work now.