Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Reviews & Product Details

AWS EKS makes k8s easy to implement , setup , configurate,integrate and manage with quite low cost Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Upgrading the aws eks cluster version has become nighmare as there are atleast 2-3 updates in a year which need to be upgraded . If the aws comes up with a service/feature which takes care of these upgrade so that it can save a lot of time for us Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS is the leading cloud provider in the market having the highest share. I find it easy to use their service because they have a good documentation on various services available on the platform.

So when you are developing a new feature, it's easy to refer and implement it in your product. Which makes integration very smooth. I use it daily in my job for various features that it provides.

It also has a good customer care support if we need to ask any queries Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can be a little costly sometimes. It may not be very beginner friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon EKS makes running Kubernetes easy by handling setup, scaling, security, and updates, so you can focus on your apps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon EKS can be complex to configure, and costs can add up, especially when scaling or using additional services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Elastic Kubernetes Service offers a lot of flexibility by automatically setting up clusters (Master Node and Worker nodes), Taking care of scaling, backup, networking, and Authentication (IAM), and ensuring deployment across various Availability Zones and Regions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I felt that the cluster cost is a little high for large-scale applications. Nevertheless, we can manage it effectively through financial operations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It efficiently manages Docker containers and provides high availability. Additionally, since most Kubernetes components are managed by AWS, we don’t need to handle version upgrades. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The implementation is a bit complex, as it requires prior Kubernetes experience to manage the cluster, and the pricing is slightly high. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Amazon Elastic kubernetes service provides an best cluster envoirnments for our containerised applications, great scaling features and auto pod creation helps for high availability of an application. also i personally loved the option of auto-upgrading the cluster. east to impliment and configure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon EKS can give more guides about setup of security group and rule allocation, sometimes because of wrong resource allocation it causes problem in intializing cluster, it should have proper logs so that user will be able to trobleshoot easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Managed kubernetes are always the best when you are dealing with production environment.

When an outage occurs you clearly know that its nothing to do with EKS core. Unlike if you host kubernetes inhouse you ahve to think of 1000 places where it might go wrong. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It would have been great if amazon would have provided an IDE to look at the cluster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aws make it easy to move our local Servers to cloud and the features it provides makes it easy to implement our softwares in the cloud . in the begining of our migration we had some issues on moving to cloud in that time the documentation and support gave by aws made the process to seamless now we had fully moved to aws and we now use our local servers less often and it is now work as a backup server. We recently started using services like SSM ,Elastic Beanstalk , Lambda ,etc which made our workflow to seamlessly integrate with our existing workflow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

during the early stages aws doesnt provide us the options for like entry level pricing for some major services for testing with our exixting infrastructure .if we want to use that service for a bit we need pay for the full service .now there is like option for choosing which kind of configuration you want Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Scalability,

Performance

Cost optimization

Resource utilisation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Complex Configuration

Difficult to implement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon EKS is easy to use managed kubernetes service. IT comes with a number of features which makes it easy for k8s admins to manage it efficiently and effectively. The AWS customer support is also very helpful when you need any assistance for the service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS EKS has a very lmited support for windows containers. That limits the usage of windows based services on EKS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.