Hi Justin, thanks for the feedback. I'll take another look at kops as it's been a while. I do think it could benefit from having a knob to turn off some of the pre-validation, or for it to do functional checks instead of checking for the existence of specific AWS resources. Many companies treat their AWS VPCs as an extension of the private corporate network, and they come up with lots of creative ways to route traffic to the internet (or select portions of it) without the VPC necessarily having an IGW or VPN. AWS is also making a growing number of services available from private endpoints within the VPC, so there is often no need for internet access. I understand the value of validating the environment, but an "expert mode" toggle would also be nice.