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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Overview
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Amazon EKS
Score 8.4 out of 10
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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed container service to run and scale Kubernetes applications in the cloud or on-premises, available on AWS or on-premise through Amazon EKS Anywhere.
$0.10
per hour of each cluster created
Pricing
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Editions & Modules
Amazon EKS Cluster
$.10
per hour of each cluster created
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon EKS
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Considered Both Products
Amazon EKS
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Anonymous
Chose Amazon EKS
Depends on the public cloud using and better integrations within the cloud native services. Using AWS cloud for majority of the platform so it was better to use the same vendor service
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Amazon EKS
It feels like AWS is behind the EKS race, the only advantage I'm able to see right now is the support of IPv6, however, trying to promote AWS alternatives that are different from the market and more like a vendor locking solutions like ECS/Fargate have kept AWS behind and …
Features
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Container Management
Comparison of Container Management features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
8.9
Ratings
14% above category average
Security and Isolation9.00 Ratings
Container Orchestration8.00 Ratings
Cluster Management8.00 Ratings
Storage Management9.00 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization9.00 Ratings
Discovery Tools8.00 Ratings
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks9.00 Ratings
Self-Healing and Recovery10.00 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging10.00 Ratings
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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Usability
9.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited for microservices architecture but can be a bit costly if less number of microservices or monolithic architecture hosted to be hosted on containers. Use of hybrid cluster instances also works well using both normal and fargate instances. Also the integration of audit and diagnostic logs of master nodes helps to reduce the unwanted access related issues.
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Pros
  • Upgrade the kubernetes clusters to the latest version with a single click
  • Auto scaling policies to automatically scale the nodes
  • Detailed logs and events on the cluster within the EKS clusters portal, cloudwatch logs and metrics
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Cons
  • AWSIAM integration with Kubernetes RBAC could be better.
  • Enabling some add-ons like service mesh, and monitoring will be nice instead of having to install them yourself after the creation of the cluster.
  • EKS bootstrap time could be faster ...
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Usability
Cluster maintanence is reduced, easier to deploy resources, great observability insights
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Alternatives Considered
It feels like AWS is behind the EKS race, the only advantage I'm able to see right now is the support of IPv6, however, trying to promote AWS alternatives that are different from the market and more like a vendor locking solutions like ECS/Fargate have kept AWS behind and focusing on the wrong things. EKS needs to really improve its integration with the Kubernetes ecosystem and have an enterprise solution for monitoring, backups, and service mesh.
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Return on Investment
  • Migrating all our workloads from ec2 VMs to containers running in Kubernetes has been a huge improvement for the management and resilience of our Infrastructure.
  • EKS Upgrade process to a new version seems to be taking very long ....
  • EKS creation time usually takes over 10 minutes in us-east-1, we would like faster creation times to be under 5 minutes.
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