Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes
Highly available, scalable, and secure Kubernetes service
Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes on AWS.
Amazon EKS runs the Kubernetes management infrastructure for you across multiple AWS availability zones to eliminate a single point of failure. Amazon EKS is certified Kubernetes conformant so you can use existing tooling and plugins from partners and the Kubernetes community. Applications running on any standard Kubernetes environment are fully compatible and can be easily migrated to Amazon EKS.
Amazon EKS is generally available for all AWS customers.
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Benefits
No Control Plane to Manage
Amazon EKS runs the Kubernetes management infrastructure across multiple AWS Availability Zones, automatically detects and replaces unhealthy control plane nodes, and provides on-demand upgrades and patching. You simply provision worker nodes and connect them to the provided Amazon EKS endpoint.
Secure by Default
Secure and encrypted communication channels are automatically setup between your worker nodes and the managed control plane, making your infrastructure running on Amazon EKS secure by default.
Built with the Community
AWS actively works with the Kubernetes community, including making contributions to the Kubernetes code base that help Amazon EKS users take advantage of AWS services and features.
Conformant and Compatible
Amazon EKS runs upstream Kubernetes and is certified Kubernetes conformant, so applications managed by Amazon EKS are fully compatible with applications managed by any standard Kubernetes environment.
How it works
Use Cases
Microservices
Easily run microservices applications with deep integrations to AWS services, while getting access to the full suite of Kubernetes functionality and popular open source tooling.
Hybrid Container Deployments
Run highly available and scalable Kubernetes clusters on AWS while maintaining full compatibility with your Kubernetes deployments running anywhere else.
Batch Processing
The Kubernetes Jobs API lets you run sequential or parallel workloads on your Amazon EKS cluster. These workloads can be run on Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances, Reserved Instances, or Spot Instances.
Application Migration
Easily containerize and migrate existing applications to Amazon EKS without needing to refactor your code or tooling.
Companies adopting Amazon EKS
What's new
Amazon EKS Supports GPU-Enabled EC2 Instances
A new Amazon EKS-optimized AMI includes configured NVIDIA drivers for GPU-enabled P2 and P3 EC2 instances. This makes it easy to run advanced workloads that require GPU support using Amazon EKS.
New EKS-optimized AMI and CloudFormation Template
The EKS-optimized AMI and CloudFormation template have been updated to make it easier to provision worker nodes for your Amazon EKS cluster.
Amazon VPC CNI Plugin Version 1.1
Version 1.1 of the CNI plugin adds the ability for EKS pods to communicate outside of the VPC, adds a configurable address pool, ensures that CNI plugin daemons are scheduled on all nodes in a cluster, and adds ENI resource tagging.
AMI Build Scripts on GitHub
Build scripts for the Amazon EKS-optimized AMI are now available on GitHub.com. This makes it easy to customize your own EKS-compatible AMI and you can follow the repository to track any changes that are made to the EKS-optimized AMI configuration.
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Blog posts & articles
Amazon EKS Now Generally Available
Amazon EKS fully manages the availability and scalability of the Kubernetes control plane for each cluster. With Amazon EKS, upgrades and high availability are managed for you by AWS.
Exploring the Networking Foundation for EKS
Learn about how EKS leverages a new AWS Container Network Interface (amazon-vpc-cni-k8s) plug-in, together with Project Calico for enforcing network policies.
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