• Amazon EKS = Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
  • launch managed Kubernetes clusters on AWS
  • It’s an alternative to ECS, similar goal but different API
  • EKS supports EC2 if you want to deploy worker nodes or Fargate to deploy serverless containers
  • Use case: if your company is already using Kubernetes on-premises or in another cloud, and wants to migrate to AWS using Kubernetes
  • Collect logs and metrics using CloudWatch Container Insights

Data Volumes

  • Need to specify StorageClass manifest on your EKS cluster
  • Leverages a Container Storage Interface (CSI) compliant driver
  • Support for…
    • EBS
    • EFS (Fargate only)
    • FSx for Lustre
    • FSx for NetApp ONTAP