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Amazon EKS

  • Amazon Elastic K8s Service
  • Way to launch managed K8s clusters on AWS.
  • K8s = Open source system to automatic deployment, scaling and management of containerized applications.
  • Alternative to ECS.
  • Supports EC2 and Fargate.

Node Types​

  • Managed Node Groups
  • Self-Managed Nodes
  • AWS Fargate

Data Volumes​

  • Need to specify StorageClass manifest on EKS cluster.
  • Leverages a Container Storage Interface compliant driver.