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Elastic Kubernetes Service

Amazon EKS is a fully managed service to run Kubernetes.

It is integrated with VPC for isolation, IAM for authentication, ELB for load distribution, and ECR for container image registry.

Major characteristics

  • Scale K8s control plane across multiple AZs.
  • No need to install, operate and maintain k8s cluster.
  • Automatically scales control plane instances based on load, detects and replaces unhealthy control plane instance.
  • It supports EC2 to deploy worker nodes or Fargate to deploy serverless containers or on to AWS Outposts.
  • Fully compatible with other CNSF kubernetes