What is Amazon EKS?

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a managed Kubernetes service that makes it easy to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to install, operate, and maintain your own Kubernetes control plane. EKS runs upstream Kubernetes and is certified Kubernetes conformant, ensuring compatibility with existing Kubernetes tooling and plugins. It automatically manages the availability and scalability of Kubernetes control plane nodes, provides integrated logging and monitoring, and offers security best practices. EKS integrates with AWS services like VPC, IAM, ELB, and works with AWS Fargate for serverless compute.