provision-db-intro-aws.md
After you deploy Management Console on Amazon Web Services (AWS) with a CloudFormation Template, you can provision a cluster and database. Vertica clusters are provisioned in the same Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) as the Vertica Management Console. You can create an initial cluster of up to 60 hosts.
Note
See Creating a cluster using MC if you installed Management Console with an RPM, or to provision an on-premises database and cluster.Prerequisites
Before you begin, complete or obtain the following:
- Deploy MC and AWS resources with a CloudFormation template
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AWS credentials and environment details
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S3 communal storage URL
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Vertica credentials