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Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

  • Used to launch Kubernetes (open-source) clusters on AWS
  • Supports both EC2 and Fargate launch types
  • Inside the EKS cluster, we have EKS nodes (EC2 instances) and EKS pods (tasks) within them. We can use a private or public load balancer to access these EKS pods.

EKS

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CloudWatch Container Insights can be configured to view metrics and logs for an EKS cluster in the CloudWatch console

Use case​

If your company is already using Kubernetes on-premises or in another cloud, and wants to migrate to AWS using Kubernetes