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@@ -25,6 +25,20 @@ The resulting cluster will be missing the following items:
 * [Logging](http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/logging)
 * [No Cloud Provider Integration](http://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/)
 
+### Assumptions
+
+GCP
+
+* The us-central1 region will be used
+
+```
+gcloud config set compute/region us-central1
+```
+
+AWS
+
+* The us-west-2 region will be used
+
 ## Labs
 
 This tutorial assumes you have access to one of the following: