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