Amazon EKS or Elastic Kubernetes Services is a managed service that allows us to run Kubernetes on AWS, Amazon Web Services. With Amazon EKS, it is possible to natively integrate AWS with Kubernetes without installing and operating our Kubernetes control plane.
Kubernetes consists of two major components:
A cluster of ‘worker nodes’ that run our containers.
A control plane that manages our containers and monitors their status.
Amazon EKS works by providing and managing the Kubernetes control plane for us. Amazon EKS also automates load distribution among clusters and allows for parallel processing, making our application fast and efficient.
Amazon EKS runs and scales the Kubernetes control plane across multiple Amazon availability zones. This is significant as it allows us to focus more on building our application than managing different infrastructures.
Applications running on Amazon EKS are fully compatible with any Kubernetes environment. This means we can easily migrate from Kubernetes to Amazon EKS without modifying any code.
Amazon EKS provides versatility and flexibility in deploying applications across multiple infrastructures.
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