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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

byAmazon Web Services (AWS)
in Container Management
4.5
2026

Overview

Product Information on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)?

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed software that enables users to run Kubernetes applications on the cloud or on-premises. It automates the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications using Kubernetes. The software integrates with AWS services to provide security, reliability, and scalability for workloads. Amazon EKS helps organizations orchestrate containers for microservices, batch processing, and machine learning, addressing the challenges of managing infrastructure for container workloads. The software supports automatic upgrades, patching, and scalability, allowing users to focus on application development rather than cluster maintenance. It provides native integration with networking and identity features for controlled access and supports hybrid environments through on-premises and cloud options.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Pricing

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service is a software with a pricing model that charges for each Amazon EKS cluster created, along with additional fees for underlying compute and storage resources used with the cluster. The total cost depends on the number of clusters and the type and amount of resources consumed during operation.

Overall experience with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

Engineer
50M - 250M USD, Travel and Hospitality
FAVORABLE

“Smooth AWS integration and managed control plane simplify operations”

4.0
May 28, 2026
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Manager, Customer Service and Support
<50M USD, IT Services
CRITICAL

“Flexibility and self-management stand out, but support and documentation create complications.”

3.0
Mar 6, 2026
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2026
For Market:
Container Management

About Company

Company Description

Updated 6th March 2025

Amazon Web Services (AWS), established in 2006, is focused on providing essential infrastructure services to businesses globally in the form of cloud computing. The key advantage offered through cloud computing, particularly via AWS, is its capacity to shift fixed infrastructure expenses into flexible costs. Businesses have been able to forgo extensive planning and procurement of servers and other Information Technology (IT) resources, owing to AWS. AWS seeks to provide businesses with prompt and cost-effective access to resources using Amazon's expertise and economies of scale, as and when their business requires. Currently, AWS offers a robust, scalable, economic infrastructure platform on the cloud powering an extensive array of businesses worldwide. It operates across numerous industries with data center locations in various parts of the globe including U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan.

Company Details

Updated 23rd December 2024
Company type
Public
Year Founded
2006
Head office location
Seattle, United States
Number of employees
10001+
Website
http://aws.amazon.com

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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Reviews and Ratings

4.5

(286 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
58%
4 Star
37%
3 Star
5%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?
  • Engineer
    50M-1B USD
    Travel and Hospitality
    Review Source

    Smooth AWS integration and managed control plane simplify operations

    4.0
    May 28, 2026
    We evaluated several managed Kubernetes options before going with EKS about 2 years ago and it’s been a great choice for our container orchestration needs. The Kubernetes API access is fully conformant, which was a non-negotiable for us. On the container runtime side, the shift to containerd has been seamless. We haven't run into compatibility issues, and the performance has been stable across our production workloads. EKS managed the Docker to containerd transition better than I expected.
  • Engineer
    50M-1B USD
    Travel and Hospitality
    Review Source

    Smooth AWS integration and managed control plane simplify operations

    4.0
    May 28, 2026
    We evaluated several managed Kubernetes options before going with EKS about 2 years ago and it’s been a great choice for our container orchestration needs. The Kubernetes API access is fully conformant, which was a non-negotiable for us. On the container runtime side, the shift to containerd has been seamless. We haven't run into compatibility issues, and the performance has been stable across our production workloads. EKS managed the Docker to containerd transition better than I expected.
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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Likes & Dislikes

Like

Integration with AWS ecosytem is the biggest advantage. IAM roles, ALB ingress controller, CloudWatch container insights, ECR for image management - all plug together natively without needing a patchwork of third-party tools. Having the control plane being fully managed with SLA backing gives us confidence we don't get from self managed clusters. Kubernetes for autoscaling has been a game changer too - its faster and smarter about right sizing nodes than the old cluster autoscaler ever was.

Like

Integration with AWS ecosytem is the biggest advantage. IAM roles, ALB ingress controller, CloudWatch container insights, ECR for image management - all plug together natively without needing a patchwork of third-party tools. Having the control plane being fully managed with SLA backing gives us confidence we don't get from self managed clusters. Kubernetes for autoscaling has been a game changer too - its faster and smarter about right sizing nodes than the old cluster autoscaler ever was.

Like

Integration with AWS ecosytem is the biggest advantage. IAM roles, ALB ingress controller, CloudWatch container insights, ECR for image management - all plug together natively without needing a patchwork of third-party tools. Having the control plane being fully managed with SLA backing gives us confidence we don't get from self managed clusters. Kubernetes for autoscaling has been a game changer too - its faster and smarter about right sizing nodes than the old cluster autoscaler ever was.

Dislike

The main challenge we've faced in initial deployments is that support hasn't been able to help us reduce response times, providing inaccurate and delayed answers for this product in our case. The latest updates have caused some problems in our existing deployments, and we've been able to determine that they were bugs. We've also had some issues with billing because the documentation in that regard isn't very detailed.

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Dislike

The main challenge we've faced in initial deployments is that support hasn't been able to help us reduce response times, providing inaccurate and delayed answers for this product in our case. The latest updates have caused some problems in our existing deployments, and we've been able to determine that they were bugs. We've also had some issues with billing because the documentation in that regard isn't very detailed.

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Dislike

The main challenge we've faced in initial deployments is that support hasn't been able to help us reduce response times, providing inaccurate and delayed answers for this product in our case. The latest updates have caused some problems in our existing deployments, and we've been able to determine that they were bugs. We've also had some issues with billing because the documentation in that regard isn't very detailed.

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