Creating your first Virtual Warehouse

After meeting prerequisites, you learn how to activate the environment from Cloudera Data Warehouse (CDW). You then create a Virtual Warehouse.

Before you can create a Virtual Warehouse in CDW service, you must have completed the following tasks:

Register an environment with Management Console. This sets up your Data Lake. Depending on which cloud platform you are using, see Register an AWS environment or Register an Azure environment.
Grant the DWAdmin role to the user or group that needs to create a Virtual Warehouse. This user or group determines which environment and Data Lake your Virtual Warehouse uses. See Granting CDP users access to Cloudera Data Warehouse service.

Activate the environment that uses the Data Lake. See Activating AWS environments or Activating Azure environments.
A default Database Catalog is created.
Add a new Virtual Warehouse. See Creating a Virtual Warehouse.

You can start executing workloads in the new Virtual Warehouse.