Amazon EKS Valuable Features

Nikhil Sehgal - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Solution Advisor (Cyber Security) at Deloitte

Amazon EKS can be used to implement and create clusters. It is also used to deploy and secure the already configured applications. EKS is a cloud-based container management service that integrates with Kubernetes to deploy applications. It automatically manages and scales clusters of infrastructure resources on AWS with Kubernetes.

EKS eliminates the need to install, operate, or maintain a Kubernetes control plane on AWS. Amazon handles everything. We just need to know how we can make it more secure, and we can use it to deploy your applications. It scales automatically, making it one of the best services.

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MohamedElazzouzi - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager de production SI technique et corporate at inwi

Amazon EKS is like Kubernetes, but it helps manage our nodes and scalability in AWS.

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Harsha Ravnikar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Architect at Sysmex America, Inc.

It's a cluster service. So Amazon EKS is essentially a Kubernetes service, which is a product created by Google and is open-sourced, meaning it can be downloaded and installed on a server in a company's data center without needing the cloud for containerization or microservices. With Kubernetes, you can build and deploy microservice applications within a Kubernetes cluster. So, all your microservices will be running under Kubernetes within a cluster. Kubernetes is what that particular class of software is called, and we refer to it as an orchestration tool. It'll figure out and make sure that your microservice is always available. So, you can go and tell them before starting Kubernetes about the number of properties, files, or variables and issue commands to determine the instances of microservices available, including setting a minimum of one or two instances. To shut down a microservice, you can set the instances to zero. Essentially, Kubernetes allows an organization or anyone to have a cluster of microservices served without needing a cloud. Amazon AWS offers Kubernetes as a service because they found that many people are using Kubernetes.

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March 2024
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ShahRushabh - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at Infinite Computer Solutions

Through Amazon EKS, we can have the blue-green deployment very easily.

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Omar Abdalhamid - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Devops Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

EKS has security features that you can't find in competing solutions.

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Yossi Shmulevitch - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at SoftContact

The tool works well with the nodes in AWS. It's scalability is also good in terms of architecture. 

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KP
Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The most important aspect of Amazon EKS is that it is easy to set up and very easy to upgrade. So we can focus on maintaining and deploying our microservice. It is also easy to scale and easy to monitor.

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Armando Becerril - PeerSpot reviewer
Partner / Head of Data & Analytics at Kueski

What I found most valuable in Amazon EKS is its maturity as a cloud computing technology.

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Hemanth_Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Staff Cloud DevOps Engineer at ARM Ltd

The solution's Autoscaler option allows for an increase in worker notes whenever particular thresholds are exceeded. In our client's case, this is beneficial because the application sits idle the whole night and peaks in the morning hours of 9-10 am as everyone starts interacting with it and processing their workload. 

The solution is quite intelligent and is enhanced every day. They recently introduced a carpenter service that provides added advantages and are working on auto-scaling enhancements which have already allowed us to scale up our Kubernetes Clusters. 

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Samim Kumar Patel - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect & Devops engineer at KdmConsulting

The best solution is in AWS, in Elastic Kubernetes Services. We have general control if we want to give access to any user. Also, whenever we push a container or image, we can create any ingress and then connect to our cluster by the Load Balancer directly.

It is very easy, and we can deliver access to customers or users. Also, we can autoscale for any deployment or compute service. In addition, the control panel is completely managed by AWS, and we only have to think about a data plan and what type of deployments, services, and DaemonSets we need.

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Tiezer Melo - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at Out.Cloud

This is the way we can create a cluster because we don't need to pay attention to the control plane. We only need to deploy the services in the worker nodes and configure some configurations, easy configurations, and the cluster is done to be published.

Basically, AWS provides all features that we have prepared.

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Hari Rajendiran - PeerSpot reviewer
Devops Engineer at Altimetrik (Deployed at FORD)

The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it allows developers to shift applications. The value of the solution is good when compared to tools deployed on an on-premises model.

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AY
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I like the scalability they're currently providing. Integration was very easy. It was a good experience. 

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Phat Chau - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution architect at EASY CREDIT Vietnam

We don’t have to manage a bunch of infrastructure. Additionally, enabling auto-scaling for both outgoing and node work helps us optimize the cost. It has valuable monitoring and insights features as well.

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SR
Senior Industry Principal at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable features of Amazon EKS are its auto scaling ability and the ability for service discovery.

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Patryk Golabek - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Translucent Computing Inc

The value is for me that it's a community product. We don't have to rely on the ECS services. 

What is new right now is Fargate. Fargate has the ability to abstract from the clusters. Amazon said that using the cluster is too complicated for people. Therefore, what they do right now is they have a service that sits on top of the cluster that doesn't even know it's a cluster. It abstracts it for you. Fargate is the ability to deploy it into the cluster, which specifies what you want to deploy and it takes care of the cluster provisioning and deployment for you. The tool just abstracts you away from the cluster, so you don't even know that you're using a cluster, which is good for people that don't want to learn the technology, the infrastructure.

The solution is easy to use. You don't have to care about the servers or the cluster. You really just say, I want to deploy this application A. You just find the application, click a button, and Fargate deploys it to a cluster for you.

They really want to get away from the idea that you made your own cluster. They really want to push you a bit higher up the layer, more of an abstraction layer.

Due to Kubernetes, it's easy to move between the clouds, to move those jobs, especially in multi-cloud systems right now. So one of the disadvantages of EKS is because of the technology they use for their machine learning right now and we prefer to have options, like CPU and Google.

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RS
Director - DevOps and Infrastructure at INTIGRAL

The most valuable feature to us is orchestration when it comes to deploying. The main ideology behind Kubernetes is that you are breaking down your application into smaller modules. Instead of having a monolithic application, you make it a microservices-based module. Using an e-commerce website as an example, we would break down login's as a single module, registration as a single module and then in the event of an issue one does not impact the other. 

With your small modules, in most cases, they share a backend, and that's how at the service layer you connect them by using an API gateway or a service mesh. This ensures scalability and they don't have any dependencies when it comes to failures. This means you can easily scale and optimize. 

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CC
Head of .NET Department at Evozon

AWS cloud services are flexible and have thorough documentation. AWS also has data centers all over the world.

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MD
Head of Digital Transformation at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The product helps us to configure the new environment. 

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Bahattin Yetismis - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at BE1 consultancy

We chose this solution because with crypto exchange you need high performance and easy manageability. It offers highly available architecture, and with two or three Linux servers it distributes all containers through the Linux systems. If that's what you're looking for, it's a really good solution. It also allows for integrating their infrastructure as service capabilities. 

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Victor AugustoDe Souza E Silva - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineer at Leek Solucoes

Amazon EKS is compatible with Kubernetes API. I can use the autoscaling feature to manage and scale up infrastructure. I can monitor the cluster as well.

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MinhTran2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Architect at Kyanon Digital

I like its auto-scale feature very much. Moreover, it is easy to determine my course of action with many features available on EKS. However, I do have some concerns with Microsoft Edge. Overall, I find EKS to be a valuable solution.

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Shriniwas-Gadage - PeerSpot reviewer
VP at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

EKS provides autoscaling functionality.

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Cuneyt Gurses - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect, DevOps Engineer at sonne technology

The most valuable feature is the cluster engine. It is also a feature in Kubernetes clusters, and we can't differentiate between the benefits in Amazon EKS and Kubernetes.

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RakeshChouhan - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect Grade I at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Firstly, whenever a service goes down, EKS automatically makes up that part, enabling the services to remain available. And secondly, whenever we deploy anything, we don't have to consider security between services because EKS provides that as well. We need to configure some supportive plug-ins and tools, which is relatively easy. This feature also provides monitoring, so if our service goes down, we have an alert mechanism and logging.

We can deploy EKS microservices on any service we are developing.

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JS
Practice Director, Global Infrastructure Services at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The solution has very good basic features.

The provisioning is very good we use it for the containerization of COTS applications.

The product is stable. 

If a company needs to scale the solution, it can.

The initial setup is simple. 

We've found the solution's technical support to be helpful and responsive.

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PN
Materials Program Management Specialist at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Overall Amazon EKS is a good solution in the industry. The solution can support multi tendencies, and network isolations are the key factors.

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SJ
Director Of Sales Marketing at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

The feature that I have found most valuable is that it is very user-friendly.

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MG
Sub Gerente Backend Digital Regional at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees

Amazon EKS is very scalable. 

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WL
Software Engineer II at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

The most valuable feature is the computing speed.

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TS
Team Lead, Network at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees

The solution is easy-to-set up. It is quick, and the main management is conveniently maintained in AWS, eliminating concerns.

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MH
Solution Architect / Head of DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We do not have to do a lot of administration, such as create virtual machines, or worry about our controllers or nodes going down because the solution is fully managed by Amazon.

You are able to have your applications on the cluster which provides the ability to replicate and scale them.

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Buyer's Guide
Amazon EKS
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Amazon EKS. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.