EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) is a managed service that runs Kubernetes on AWS.
- Provision and scale your cluster automatically using AWS multi-AZs for HA (High Availability) and fault tolerance.
- Compatible with all K8s plug-ins and applications
- Self-Healing: detects unhealthy worker nodes and replaces them automatically
Modes
EC2
- a cluster of EC2 instances
- EKS provisions and manages nodes
- good for a stateful application or a long-running application such as a web server
- good for applications with persistent volumes or file systems
Fargate
- a cluster with serverless containers
- no need to manage servers
- good for short-lived, state-less applications
ECS vs. EKS
ECS
- Proprietary AWS container management service
- Easy to use
EKS
- AWS Managed service of the popular open-source container management system
- When your organization already uses Kubernetes, it is easy to migrate to the AWS Eco-system.
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