A synopsis on Amazon elastic kubernetes service (EKS).
Published: 2023-07-15 06:04:56

#Introduction:
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a fully managed container orchestration service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It simplifies the process of deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications using Kubernetes. With Amazon EKS, developers can focus on their applications without worrying about the underlying infrastructure required to run and manage Kubernetes clusters.


#Key Functions and Feautures:
- Managed Kubernetes Control Plane: Amazon EKS takes care of the Kubernetes control plane, including the etcd data store and the API server. AWS manages these components, ensuring high availability, security, and scalability, while relieving users from the burden of managing them themselves.
- Scalability and High Availability: Amazon EKS allows you to easily scale your applications and clusters based on demand. It automatically detects and replaces unhealthy instances, ensuring high availability of your applications. You can also leverage AWS Auto Scaling to scale your worker nodes based on defined policies.
- Security and Compliance: Amazon EKS integrates with other AWS services to provide robust security and compliance features. It supports AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for fine-grained access controls.
- Integration with AWS Services: Amazon EKS seamlessly integrates with various AWS services, enabling you to leverage their capabilities within your Kubernetes applications to provide persistent storage.
- Simplified Operations: With Amazon EKS, you can easily deploy and manage your Kubernetes applications using familiar Kubernetes tooling and APIs. It supports popular container orchestration tools like kubectl, Helm, and AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), allowing you to leverage your existing knowledge and workflows.
- Multi-region Availability: Amazon EKS provides multi-region availability, allowing you to deploy your applications across multiple regions for enhanced availability and disaster recovery.

#Benefits and Beyond:
The benefits of Amazon EKS collectively which simplify the process of deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications using, allowing developers to focus on building and running their applications rather than managing the underlying infrastructure are of great benefits for future modifications.

#Conclusion:
Basically I would say there’s a little regret missing the last session after going through the slide despite the fact that I would love to create an Amazon EKS cluster through AWS console.EKctL or Infrastructure as code (Terraform/Pulumi) and also gained more insight on the efficiency of Etcd-key value storage.
Also the knowledge about EKS and it’s numerous functions and advantages over the traditional deployment of applications and its demerits was gained and that Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) offers a managed solution for running and scaling containerized applications using Kubernetes. With its robust features, Whether you are a developer or an operations team, Amazon EKS enables you to focus on your applications while leveraging the power and flexibility of Kubernetes in the AWS cloud environment.