# `create_cluster`
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```
create_cluster(cluster_name, cluster_configuration, region, suppress_validators, validation_failure_level, dry_run, rollback_on_failure, wait)
```

Create a cluster in a given Region.Parameters:

**`cluster_name` (required)**  
The cluster name.

**`cluster_configuration` (required)**  
The cluster configuration as a Python data type.

**`region`**  
The cluster AWS Region.

**`suppress_validators`**  
Identifies one or more cluster configuration validators to suppress.  
Format: `(ALL | type:[A-Za-z0-9]+)`

**`validation_failure_level`**  
The minimum validation level that causes the cluster creation to fail. The default is `ERROR`.  
Valid values: `INFO` \$1 `WARNING` \$1 `ERROR`.

**`dry_run`**  
Performs the request validation without creating any resources. You can use this to validate the cluster configuration. The default is `False`.

**`rollback_on_failure`**  
If set to `True`, AWS ParallelCluster automatically initiates a cluster stack rollback on failures. The default is `True`.

**`wait`**  
If set to `True`, AWS ParallelCluster waits for the operation to complete. The default is `False`.