After clicking on Launch your first node, we will need to provide some additional information such as what region we want to deploy our node to, if we have a custom VPC we have created that we want to deploy our node to, what size we want the node to be, any IAM roles we want to assign to the node, the number of nodes we want, and the disk size of each node.
For our example, we mainly kept the default, only lowering the disk size to the minimum size of 10 GB.
Once you have clicked on the Launch node cluster button, you will see the status of the node; in this case, it's Deploying. We also have some other items we can check out while it's deploying.
We can view the Monitoring tab and see information pertaining to the node such as CPU, Memory, Disk, and Bandwidth Out.
We can also view the timeline of our node. Now, at first, this will be very short as it's just showing us that we created the node and are deploying it.
Over time, this timeline will grow and show you the progress of...