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Amazon EKS

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

Build, run, and scale production-ready Kubernetes applications easily across any environment

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Benefits of Amazon EKS

Streamline Kubernetes operations by automating cluster infrastructure management, allowing your teams to focus on innovation.

Utilize automatic capacity planning and scaling to continuously optimize performance and costs, while offloading operational overhead to AWS.

Run production-grade workloads in a highly reliable, scalable, and secure environment leveraging the proven reliability of AWS’ global infrastructure and native integrations with AWS Security Services.

Unify Kubernetes management with standardized tooling and operations across cloud, on-premises, and at edge locations, gaining the flexibility to run your workloads anywhere.

Why Amazon EKS?

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) enables teams of any size or skill level to build, run, and scale production-ready applications easily across any environment. With Amazon EKS Auto Mode, you can fully automate Kubernetes cluster management for compute, storage, and networking with a single click. Amazon EKS empowers you to leverage open source innovations and the breadth of AWS services while benefitting from the robust availability, reliability, and security of AWS infrastructure. Whether you are deploying AI/ML workloads, modernizing existing applications, or building new cloud-native applications, Amazon EKS enables you to optimize for performance and cost, and provides a consistent experience across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. Join industry leaders from financial services, healthcare, media & entertainment, and software who trust Amazon EKS to run their mission-critical containerized applications while reducing operational overhead and accelerating innovation.

Use cases

Scale and operate production-grade Generative AI applications efficiently with Amazon EKS, combining Kubernetes flexibility with AWS operational excellence to manage distributed training and inference deployments while reducing infrastructure complexity and costs.

Build standardized application management environments for your development teams by seamlessly combining open source technology with AWS services.

Build scalable, high-performing, and cost-efficient data platforms on Amazon EKS to support cost-effective, scalable batch processing and big data workloads.

Unify how you run applications across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments with Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes, AWS Outposts, or Amazon EKS Anywhere.

Lift and shift on-premises applications to Amazon EKS, or build and scale microservices-based applications for enhanced fault tolerance and extensibility.