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### Storage and Cloud Providers
When you provision persistent storage for a cluster hosted in the cloud, you must host your storage with the same provider that hosts the cluster. For example, if you're hosting your cluster on Amazon EC2, you must host your storage on Amazon EBS. To setup storage for your cloud-hosted cluster, you must complete two tasks: enabling the **Cloud Provider** option for your cluster, and adding storage using the same provider.
When you provision persistent storage for a cluster [launched by RKE]({{< baseurl >}}/rancher/v2.x/en/cluster-provisioning/rke-clusters), you must host your storage with the same provider that hosts the cluster. For example, if you're hosting your cluster on Amazon EC2, you must host your storage on Amazon EBS. To setup storage for your RKE-launched cluster, you must complete two tasks: enabling the **Cloud Provider** option for your cluster, and adding storage using the same provider.
<sup>Enabling Cloud Provider Option/Choosing Storage Provider</sup>
![Cloud Provider]({{< baseurl >}}/img/rancher/cloud-provider.png)
Before you set up storage for your cloud-hosted cluster, make sure that the **Cloud Provider** option for the cluster is enabled. [Cloud providers]({{< baseurl >}}/rancher/v2.x/en/cluster-provisioning/rke-clusters/options/cloud-providers/) are modules that allow you to use the provider's features in Rancher (like provisioning persistent storage).
Before you set up storage for a cluster launched by RKE, make sure that the **Cloud Provider** option for the cluster is enabled. [Cloud providers]({{< baseurl >}}/rancher/v2.x/en/cluster-provisioning/rke-clusters/options/cloud-providers/) are modules that allow you to use the provider's features in Rancher (like provisioning persistent storage).
You can turn on the **Cloud Provider** option in one of two contexts: