Failed to create fargate profile

Question

When attempting to create a fargate profile with amazon eks (using command eksctl create cluster --name myclustername --version 1.14 --fargate), I get the

[✔]  all EKS cluster resources for "myclustername" have been created
[✔]  saved kubeconfig as "/home/connor/.kube/config"
[ℹ]  creating Fargate profile "fp-default" on EKS cluster "myclustername"
Error: failed to create Fargate profile "fp-default" on EKS cluster "myclustername": failed     to create Fargate profile "fp-default": AccessDeniedException: Account 339969016160 is not authorized to use this service
status code: 403, request id: 1db7cf38-002e-48b8-8fa6-8a7b7eab324d

Any ideas on what permissions I need to add to get around this? I prefer to do all administration through cli, wherever possible

Answer 1

Error is hideous in that it suggests it is a permissions issue, while really the problem is that fargate with EKS (kubernetes) is only supported in four regions as of January 12th 2020:

Region Name             Region
US East (Ohio)          us-east-2
US East (N. Virginia)   us-east-1
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)    ap-northeast-1
EU (Ireland)            eu-west-1

See: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/fargate.html

Although not apparent in your note, I suspect you are trying to use a region not on the above list.

Note that fargate is available on more regions as long as it is not used in conjunction with EKS.