Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

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What is Amazon EKS?

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed Kubernetes (K8s) service to run Kubernetes in the AWS cloud and on-premises data centers. In the cloud, 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

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

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.

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.

Discover related Amazon services on the Free Tier

Product	Description	Free Tier Offer Details	Product Pricing
Amazon EKS	Amazon EKS is the most trusted way to start, run, and scale Kubernetes	Use credits to access features in both Free and Paid plans.	Amazon EKS Pricing
Amazon EC2	Amazon EC2 is a web service that provides sizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.	Use credits to access features in both Free and Paid plans. Free plan eligible instances include: T3.micro, T3.small, T4g.micro, T4g.small, C7i-flex.large, M7i-flex.large	Amazon EC2 Pricing
Amazon Elastic Container Registry	Push container images to Amazon ECR without installing or scaling infrastructure, and pull images using any management tool.	Use credits to access features in both Free and Paid plans, including: Container orchestrator integration OCI and Docker support High availability	Amazon ECR Pricing

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