# How to spin up foundationdb cluster in aws

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**Category:** Using FoundationDB\
**Created:** [March 5, 2019, 8:27pm UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/how-to-spin-up-foundationdb-cluster-in-aws/1198 "2019-03-05T20:27:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![alexmiller](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/foundationdb/user_avatar/forums.foundationdb.org/alexmiller/32/326_2.png) [@alexmiller](https://forums.foundationdb.org/u/alexmiller)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 8:55pm UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/how-to-spin-up-foundationdb-cluster-in-aws/1198/2 "2019-03-05T20:55:11Z")

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There were some terraform scripts posted in [another thread](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/scripts-to-deploy-benchmark-and-tinker-with-1m-operations-sec-foundationdb-cluster-on-aws/637) that serve as a good starting place. Depending on what size of cluster you need, you’ll need to change the number of machines/processes, and thus the cluster layout. There have been a few other threads [(1)](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/cluster-tuning-cookbook/520) [(2)](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/production-optimizations/601) [(3)](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/why-doesnt-my-cluster-performance-scale-when-i-double-the-number-of-machines/640) threads that offer guidance on how to design a cluster.

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