Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Start, run and scale Kubernetes in the most effective way

What you should know

Amazon EKS

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed service that you can use to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to install, operate, and maintain your own Kubernetes control plane or nodes in on-premises data centers.

Benefits

Cost reduction with efficient compute resource provisioning and automatic Kubernetes application scaling. Fully compatible with Kubernetes to leverage the orchestration platform’s ecosystem. Amazon EKS runs and automatically scales control plane instances based on load, detects and replaces unhealthy control plane instances, and provides automated version updates and patching for them.

Integration with AWS services

Elastic Kubernetes Service is integrated with many AWS services to provide scalability and security for your applications, including Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) for load distribution, Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) for authentication, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) for workload isolation and Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) for container images hosting.

Use cases

With EKS businesses can build web applications that automatically scale up and down, and run in a highly available configuration across multiple Availability Zones. They can also manage Kubernetes clusters and applications in hybrid environments, as well as running Kubernetes in their own data centers.