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Running TDV on a Public Cloud - Amazon Web Service
The TIBCO Data Virtualization Container distribution provides a distributed platform for containerized applications.
In this section you will find detailed instructions on how to run TDV on the Amazon Web Service (AWS) Public Cloud platform.
For a basic understanding of the AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) see:
https://aws.amazon.com/eks/
In order to interact with AWS APIs with an EKS cluster requires an AWS account. You will need that account and appropriate Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles/permissions to manage AWS resources such as the load balancer, container registry, etc. You can access the AWS console using your account information at:
https://aws.amazon.com/