EKS

Elastic Kubernetes Service: use Kubernete on AWS

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Overview

• Alternative of ECS, similar goal but different API.

• Kubernetes is open-source system for automatic deployment, scaling and management.

How it works

How it works

Use cases

• Already using Kubernetes on-premises or in another cloud.

Node types

• Managed node group

• Self-managed nodes

Data volumes

• EBS

• EFS (work with Fargate)

• FSx for Lustre

• FSx for NetApp ONTAP.

Security

• Turn on secretes encryption (using KMS) to encrypt Kubernetes secrets.

• The KMS key will be created in the same region as your cluster.

• Cannot modify or remove encryption once enabled.