diff --git a/cmd/cloud/deployment.go b/cmd/cloud/deployment.go
index 32dc28bd4..093b7d7f3 100644
--- a/cmd/cloud/deployment.go
+++ b/cmd/cloud/deployment.go
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ var (
 	httpClient              = httputil.NewHTTPClient()
 	errFlag                 = errors.New("--deployment-file can not be used with other arguments")
 	errInvalidExecutor      = errors.New("not a valid executor")
-	errInvalidCloudProvider = errors.New("not a valid cloud provider. It can only be gcp")
+	errInvalidCloudProvider = errors.New("not a valid cloud provider. It can only be gcp or aws")
 )
 
 func newDeploymentRootCmd(out io.Writer) *cobra.Command {
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ func newDeploymentCreateCmd(out io.Writer) *cobra.Command {
 	cmd.Flags().BoolVarP(&deploymentCreateEnforceCD, "enforce-cicd", "", false, "Provide this flag means deploys to deployment must use an API Key or Token. This essentially forces Deploys to happen through CI/CD")
 	if organization.IsOrgHosted() {
 		cmd.Flags().StringVarP(&clusterType, "cluster-type", "", standard, "The Cluster Type to use for the Deployment. Possible values can be standard or dedicated.")
-		cmd.Flags().StringVarP(&cloudProvider, "cloud-provider", "p", "gcp", "The Cloud Provider to use for the Deployment. Possible values can be gcp.")
+		cmd.Flags().StringVarP(&cloudProvider, "cloud-provider", "p", "gcp", "The Cloud Provider to use for the Deployment. Possible values can be gcp, aws.")
 		cmd.Flags().StringVarP(&region, "region", "", "", "The Cloud Provider region to use for the Deployment.")
 		cmd.Flags().StringVarP(&schedulerSize, "scheduler-size", "", "", "The size of scheduler for the Deployment. Possible values can be small, medium, large")
 		cmd.Flags().StringVarP(&highAvailability, "high-availability", "a", "disable", "Enables High Availability for the Deployment")
@@ -380,7 +380,6 @@ func deploymentCreate(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string, out io.Writer) error {
 			return fmt.Errorf("%s is %w", cloudProvider, errInvalidCloudProvider)
 		}
 	}
-
 	// Silence Usage as we have now validated command input
 	cmd.SilenceUsage = true
 
@@ -496,5 +495,5 @@ func isValidExecutor(executor string) bool {
 
 // isValidCloudProvider returns true for valid CloudProvider values and false if not.
 func isValidCloudProvider(cloudProvider astrocore.SharedClusterCloudProvider) bool {
-	return cloudProvider == astrocore.SharedClusterCloudProviderGcp
+	return cloudProvider == astrocore.SharedClusterCloudProviderGcp || cloudProvider == astrocore.SharedClusterCloudProviderAws
 }
diff --git a/cmd/cloud/deployment_test.go b/cmd/cloud/deployment_test.go
index e8cad21a5..805fff032 100644
--- a/cmd/cloud/deployment_test.go
+++ b/cmd/cloud/deployment_test.go
@@ -865,11 +865,15 @@ func TestIsValidExecutor(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func TestIsValidCloudProvider(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Run("returns true if cloudProvider is GCP", func(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Run("returns true if cloudProvider is gcp", func(t *testing.T) {
 		actual := isValidCloudProvider("gcp")
 		assert.True(t, actual)
 	})
-	t.Run("returns false if cloudProvider is not GCP", func(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Run("returns true if cloudProvider is aws", func(t *testing.T) {
+		actual := isValidCloudProvider("aws")
+		assert.True(t, actual)
+	})
+	t.Run("returns false if cloudProvider is not gcp", func(t *testing.T) {
 		actual := isValidCloudProvider("azure")
 		assert.False(t, actual)
 	})