This article provides a comprehensive guide to deploying a production IPFS cluster on Amazon EKS, part 2 of a 3-part series on running IPFS on AWS.

• Deploy IPFS cluster across two Availability Zones with redundancy and load balancing
• Create VPC with public/private subnets and configure security groups for network isolation
• Set up Amazon EKS cluster with managed node groups and required IAM roles
• Install AWS Load Balancer Controller, EFS CSI driver, and Helm for Kubernetes management
• Configure Amazon Cognito authentication to protect IPFS gateway access
• Use Elastic IPs for IPFS peer discovery and network participation
• Deploy IPFS servers with persistent storage using Amazon EFS One Zone
• Deploy IPFS cluster peers with configuration management via Kubernetes ConfigMaps
• Test cluster connectivity and pin content using ipfs-cluster-ctl commands

The guide walks through 11 high-level steps from VPC creation to cluster testing, enabling production-ready IPFS infrastructure on AWS with proper security, scalability, and persistence.