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Amazon EKS OverviewΒΆ

  • Amazon EKS - Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
  • It is a way to launch managed Kubernetes clusters on AWS
  • Kubernetes is an open-source system for automatic deployment, scaling and management of containerized (usually Docker) applications.
  • It's an alternative to ECS, similar goal but different API
  • EKS supports EC2 if you want to deploy worker nodes or Fargate to deploy serverless containers
  • Use case: if your company already is using Kubernetes on-premises or in another cloud, and wants to migrate to AWS using Kubernetes
  • Kubernetes is cloud-agnostic (can be used in any cloud - Azure, GCP...)