AWS permissions

As a Cloudera administrator, you must be able to perform the following tasks in your AWS account:

  • Create policies and roles in IAM.
  • Create and administer VPCs, subnets, security groups, and S3 buckets.
  • Perform administrative tasks in various AWS services such as EC2 and CloudFormation.

AWS Administrator privileges provides all the permissions you need to create the resources for Cloudera. For the list of AWS resources that Cloudera services use, refer to AWS resources used by Cloudera.