<p>I'm trying to create an EKS cluster but I keep getting the following error. I think it's an issue of permissions, roles, etc but I have minimum experience with AWS stuff.</p>

<p>I found <a href="https://github.com/weaveworks/eksctl/issues/204" rel="noreferrer">this thread</a> but I have no idea how to implement all these things.</p>

<p>Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.</p>

<pre><code>$ eksctl create cluster
[ℹ]  eksctl version 0.13.0
[ℹ]  using region us-west-2
Error: getting availability zones: getting availability zones for us-west-2: UnauthorizedOperation: You are not authorized to perform this operation.
    status code: 403, request id: 724b0c02-fb51-43b2-98ab-746a3d2e45a0
</code></pre>

Raskolnikov
<p>I am also a newbie to EKS. The problem of this matter is you have not permissions to do something. First, we should know what permissions we need, however, as a newbie we don't wanna know so much. So as Kushagra Saxena said, we set our IAM account as Admin for learning.</p>
<h1>Use Existing Policy</h1>
<ol>
<li><p>Select Users
<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/LHuIy.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/LHuIy.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
</li>
<li><p>Add permissions
<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/VWVqj.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/VWVqj.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
</li>
<li><p>Select <code>AdministratorAccess</code> and then Next Next Next!
<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/cDxZi.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/cDxZi.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
</li>
</ol>
<h1>Or Use Custom Policy</h1>
<p>If you wanna use custom policy, like this:</p>
<pre><code>{
    &quot;Version&quot;: &quot;2012-10-17&quot;,
    &quot;Statement&quot;: [
        {
            &quot;Effect&quot;: &quot;Allow&quot;,
            &quot;Action&quot;: &quot;*&quot;,
            &quot;Resource&quot;: &quot;*&quot;
        }
    ]
}
</code></pre>
<p>You should create your own policy.You can do as following:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Select &quot;Policies&quot; and &quot;Create Policy&quot;
<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/JkEFX.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/JkEFX.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
</li>
<li><p>Replace by your Json and Next Next.
<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/J9HLd.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/J9HLd.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
</li>
</ol>
<p>3.Select your user and add permissions as &quot;Use Existing Policy&quot; do。</p>
