AWS EKS
AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a managed container orchestration service that allows users to run Kubernetes on Amazon Web Services without needing to install, operate, and maintain their own Kubernetes control plane. It integrates with various AWS services, providing a highly available…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2018
- Category
- cloud_infrastructure
- Problem solved
- AWS EKS was created to solve the significant operational burden and complexity of manually setting up, managing, securing, and maintaining a highly available and scalable Kubernetes control plane within a cloud environment. It aimed to provide the benefits of Kubernetes without the deep operational overhead.
- Platforms
- AWS Cloud
Related technologies
- AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
- Grafana
- Kubernetes (kubectl, Helm)
- AWS Fargate
- AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
- GitLab CI/CD
- GitHub Actions
- Prometheus
- AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Jenkins
- AWS CloudFormation
- AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- Linkerd
- AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS)
- Istio
- Docker
- Terraform
- AWS CloudWatch
Notable users
- GoDaddy
- Skyscanner
- Vodafone
- Samsung
- Snap Inc.
- Fidelity Investments