--role-arn

--role-arn is the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the IAM role that provides permissions for the Kubernetes control plane to make calls to Amazon Web Services API operations on your behalf

 aws eks create-cluster --name prod --role-arn arn:aws:iam::012345678910:role/eks-service-role-AWSServiceRoleForAmazonEKS-J7ONKE3BQ4PI --resources-vpc-config subnetIds=subnet-6782e71e,subnet-e7e761ac,securityGroupIds=sg-6979fe18

aws eks update-kubeconfig --name YOUR-EKS-CLUSTER-NAME --region aws-region --role-arn

Related

• Amazon EKS cluster role
• aws eks update-kubeconfig
• aws sts assume-role --role-arn your_role
• aws sts get-caller-identity

See also

• AWS role
• AWS STS (sts:), aws sts [ get-session-token | get-caller-identity | assume-role | assume-role-with-web-identity | assume-role-with-saml | get-access-key-info ]
• AWS EKS:AWS::EKS, aws eks [ create-cluster | list-clusters | describe-cluster | update-kubeconfig | list-updates | list-addons | update-cluster-version | update-nodegroup-version | get-token | create-addon ]