AWS environments overview

Learn about environments on AWS in Cloudera on cloud, including requirements you must meet before activating your environment in Cloudera Data Warehouse.

The Cloudera environment is closely related to the virtual private network in your cloud provider account. Registering an environment with Cloudera Management Console provides Cloudera with access to your cloud provider account and identifies resources in your account that Cloudera services can access, including Cloudera Data Warehouse. A single environment is contained within a single cloud provider region, so all resources deployed by Cloudera are deployed within that region within one specific virtual network. After you have registered an environment with Cloudera Management Console, you can activate the environment in Cloudera Data Warehouse. You create Virtual Warehouses in Cloudera Data Warehouse.

By default, Ranger Authorization is enabled in AWS environments. For an introduction to enabling RAZ, see the Cloudera Management Console documentation.

The following diagram shows the components of an AWS environment: