Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS), which is a certified Kubernetes service that allows users to run Kubernetes in the cloud. EKS is an automatically provisioned Kubernetes control plane, so it can automate tasks like patching and node provisioning. While EKS gives developers slightly less control than running Kubernetes on their own, it offers a lot of flexibility for running Kubernetes applications in the AWS cloud and scaling those applications. As a Kubernetes alternative, AWS offers Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), also called Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). EC2 enables users to manage Kubernetes infrastructure on their own, with secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. EC2 offers developers the highest level of control, allowing developers to choose their processor, storage, networking, operating system, and purchase model.