# AWS

Registering an AWS Account in gopaddle, provides gopaddle the required  AWS Account credentials to create EKS clusters, push or pull container images to ECR, use AWS SNS as a notification channel to send Kubernetes events. Registering an AWS Account in gopaddle is simplified through a quick start wizard.

1. [Quickstart AWS Setup](https://help.gopaddle.io/overview/provision-new-cluster/register-cloud-account/aws/quickstart-aws-setup) to select the AWS Services to use in gopaddle and generate an AWS Setup script
2. Review the [IAM Access policies](https://help.gopaddle.io/overview/provision-new-cluster/register-cloud-account/aws/iam-access-policies)
3. [Execute the AWS Setup script](https://help.gopaddle.io/overview/provision-new-cluster/register-cloud-account/aws/aws-setup-script) locally to create a new IAM user, role, assign IAM Access policies and register the IAM User in gopaddle.