Managed Control Plane
Integration with AWS
Security
Scalability and Flexibility
Compatibility with Kubernetes Ecosystem
Amazon EKS offers a fully managed Kubernetes control plane, ensuring its availability, scalability, and security across multiple AWS zones, with automated updates and patching.
EKS integrates seamlessly with AWS services, including ELB for traffic distribution, IAM for access control, VPC for secure networking, and CloudTrail/CloudWatch for logging and monitoring.
EKS provides strong security features, such as IAM roles for service accounts, private clusters, and control plane logging, all enhancing Kubernetes cluster protection.
EKS supports cluster scalability and flexibility, using the Cluster Autoscaler and Horizontal Pod Autoscaler, and accommodates both EC2 and Fargate for pod deployment.
EKS maintains full compatibility with the Kubernetes ecosystem, meaning it supports standard tools and plugins and taps into the community-driven extensions and integrations.