[aws] section - AWS ParallelCluster

[aws] section

(Optional) Used to select the AWS Region.

Cluster creation uses this priority order to select the AWS Region for a new cluster:

  1. -r or --region parameter to pcluster create.

  2. AWS_DEFAULT_REGION environment variable.

  3. aws_region_name setting in [aws] section of AWS ParallelCluster config file (default location is ~/.parallelcluster/config.) This is the location updated by the pcluster configure command.

  4. region setting in [default] section of AWS CLI config file (~/.aws/config.)

Note

Before AWS ParallelCluster version 2.10.0, these settings were required and applied to all clusters.

To store credentials, you can use the environment, IAM roles for Amazon EC2, or the AWS CLI, rather than saving credentials into the AWS ParallelCluster config file.

[aws]
aws_region_name = Region

Update policy: This setting is not analyzed during an update.