# Quickstart Example - AWS Persistent Storage

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/quickstart-example-aws-persistent-storage/185212>\
**Category:** Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)\
**Created:** [June 11, 2019, 2:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/quickstart-example-aws-persistent-storage/185212 "2019-06-11T14:11:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![tomseddon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tomseddon/32/47878_2.png) [@tomseddon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tomseddon)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2019, 2:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/quickstart-example-aws-persistent-storage/185212/1 "2019-06-11T14:11:37Z")

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Hi,

I've been trying out the example on my kops K8s setup on AWS (not EKS). I can get the first example to work but when I move on to trying to allocate a `PersistentVolumeClaim` I run into difficulties. The example given uses `gcePersistentDisk`, so I try to use the equivalent AWS PVC and can't seem to get it to work. The following give an error in the operator logs of `DNS-1123 subdomain must consist of lower case alphanumeric characters`:

`AWSElasticBlockStore`  
`awsElasticBlockStore`

Following the error message, I try:

`awselasticblockstore`

Which results in pods being created but a describe on them shows:

`pod has unbound immediate PersistentVolumeClaims`

What is the correct way to provision persistent storage on AWS?

Thanks,

Tom

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**Author:** ![michael.morello](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/michael.morello/32/47448_2.png) [@michael.morello](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/michael.morello)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2019, 9:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/quickstart-example-aws-persistent-storage/185212/2 "2019-06-12T09:12:49Z")

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Hi,

Please could you give us the output of the following commands:

- kubectl get pvc,pv,storageclass
- kubectl get events

Thank you

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**Author:** ![tomseddon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tomseddon/32/47878_2.png) [@tomseddon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tomseddon)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2019, 12:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/quickstart-example-aws-persistent-storage/185212/3 "2019-06-17T12:39:36Z")

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Thank you, I have found the problem. The values I was using were not actually available when I listed `kubectl get storageclass`. I was able to progress further once I used these.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 7:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/quickstart-example-aws-persistent-storage/185212/4 "2022-11-04T07:11:46Z")

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