Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

Start, run, and scale Kubernetes applications

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What is Amazon EKS?

Amazon EKS is a managed Kubernetes service that makes it easy for you to run Kubernetes on AWS and on-premises. Amazon EKS automatically manages the availability and scalability of the Kubernetes control plane nodes responsible for scheduling containers, managing application availability, storing cluster data, and other key tasks. With Amazon EKS, you can take advantage of all the performance, scale, reliability, and availability of AWS infrastructure, as well as integrations with AWS networking and security services.

Amazon EKS Uses Cases

Deploy across hybrid environments

Manage your Kubernetes clusters and applications in hybrid environments and run Kubernetes in your data centers with EKS Anywhere.

Model machine learning workflows

Efficiently run distributed training jobs using the latest Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) GPU-powered instances, including Inferentia, and deploy training and inferences using Kubeflow.

Build and run web applications

Create applications that automatically scale up and down and run in a highly available configuration across multiple Availability Zones with out-of-the-box networking and security integrations.

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Amazon EKS

Start, run, and scale Kubernetes.

Not currently available on the Free Tier

Amazon EKS Pricing
Amazon EC2 Resizable compute capacity in the Cloud. 12 MONTHS FREE

750 hours per month of Linux, RHEL, or SLES t2.micro or t3.micro instance dependent on region

750 hours per month of Windows t2.micro or t3.micro instance dependent on region		 Amazon EC2 Pricing
Amazon CloudWatch Monitoring for AWS cloud resources and applications.

ALWAYS FREE

10 custom metric alarms

1,000,000 API requests

5GB of log data ingestion and log data archive

3 dashboards with up to 50 metrics each per month

 Amazon CloudWatch Pricing

Free Tier Offer

Amazon EKS
The most trusted way to start, run, and scale Kubernetes.
Not currently available on the Free Tier
AWS EKS Pricing »
Amazon EC2
Resizable compute capacity in the Cloud.
12 MONTHS FREE

750 hours per month of Linux, RHEL, or SLES t2.micro or t3.micro instance dependent on region

750 hours per month of Windows t2.micro or t3.micro instance dependent on region

Amazon EC2 Pricing »
Amazon CloudWatch
Monitoring for AWS cloud resources and applications.
ALWAYS FREE

10 custom metric alarms

1,000,000 API requests

5GB of log data ingestion and log data archive

3 dashboards with up to 50 metrics each per month

AWS CloudWatch Pricing »
AWS Lambda
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Learn More About Amazon EKS

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  • Customer Stories
  • Bird runs Kubernetes clusters at scale with Amazon EKS

    Bird is a micromobility company that operated shared electric scooters in over 100 cities in Europe, the Middle East, and North America with 10 million rides in its first year of operation. Learn how Bird runs Kubernetes clusters at scale during a 2019 re:Invent presentation.

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    Indivumed increases processing capacity by 2,400% with Amazon EKS

    Indivumed specializes in using the highest quality biospecimen and comprehensive clinical data to advance research and development in precision oncology. Its IndivuType discovery solution uses AWS to store data and support analysis to decipher the complexity of cancer. By using Amazon EKS, IndivuType can now process 500 samples per week, up from 20, to scale up to 1,000 instances.

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    Hello Sunday Morning expands app capacity at no extra cost with Amazon EKS

    Hello Sunday Morning is nonprofit organization that helps people change their relationship with alcohol. Through their app, Daybreak, users can anonymously seek personalized around-the-clock support on their mobile devices at no cost. Using Amazon EKS and Amazon EC2 to manage the app, they are now able to support up to 35,000 weekly active users, ten times more than before AWS integration—with no increase in costs.

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  • Videos
  • Amazon EKS Explained (9:24)
    EKS Blueprints Explained (9:16)
    EKS Workshop Prerequisites (12:13)
    Amazon EKS Anywhere vs EKS on AWS Outposts (10:40)

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