Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a fully managed Kubernetes service. Customers such as Intel, Snap, Intuit, GoDaddy, and Autodesk trust EKS to run their most sensitive and mission critical applications because of its security, reliability, and scalability.
Product | Market Share (%) |
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Amazon EKS | 11.8% |
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform | 19.7% |
VMware Tanzu Platform | 12.1% |
Other | 56.4% |
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Category | Container Management | Sep 8, 2025 | Download |
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Comparison | Amazon EKS vs Kubernetes | Sep 8, 2025 | Download |
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Microsoft Defender for Cloud | 4.0 | 1.2% | 94% | 79 interviewsAdd to research |
Red Hat OpenShift | 4.2 | 2.7% | 95% | 62 interviewsAdd to research |
Company Size | Count |
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Small Business | 26 |
Midsize Enterprise | 17 |
Large Enterprise | 30 |
Company Size | Count |
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Small Business | 163 |
Midsize Enterprise | 140 |
Large Enterprise | 607 |
EKS is the best place to run Kubernetes for several reasons. First, you can choose to run your EKS clusters using AWS Fargate, which is serverless compute for containers. Fargate removes the need to provision and manage servers, lets you specify and pay for resources per application, and improves security through application isolation by design. Second, EKS is deeply integrated with services such as Amazon CloudWatch, Auto Scaling Groups, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), providing you a seamless experience to monitor, scale, and load-balance your applications. Third, EKS integrates with AWS App Mesh and provides a Kubernetes native experience to consume service mesh features and bring rich observability, traffic controls and security features to applications. Additionally, EKS provides a scalable and highly-available control plane that runs across multiple availability zones to eliminate a single point of failure.
EKS runs upstream Kubernetes and is certified Kubernetes conformant so you can leverage all benefits of open source tooling from the community. You can also easily migrate any standard Kubernetes application to EKS without needing to refactor your code.
Amazon EKS was previously known as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service.
Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
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Platform DevOps Engineer at a consumer goods company with 201-500 employees | 4.0 | I've used Amazon EKS for three years to deploy scalable applications, leveraging features like IRSA and managed node groups, though I find the cluster autoscaler needs improvement for better label visibility and more efficient scaling. |
Aws DevOps Engineer at Nova Techset Ltd | 5.0 | I use Amazon EKS for a microservices application due to its scalability, managed control plane, and IAM integration, though I manually handle patching to avoid impacting production. It's stable, secure, and simplifies deployment and monitoring. |
Senior DevOps Engineer at Blankfactor | 4.0 | I've used Amazon EKS for years to streamline web and mobile app deployments. It's flexible, scalable, and supports GitOps, though documentation and debugging could improve. Support varies by plan, and costs depend on architecture management. |
Technical Lead at Cognizant | 4.0 | I use Amazon EKS for running Jenkins and monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana. It simplifies setup, scales well, and is stable, though IAM configuration could be more user-friendly with templates for easier onboarding. |
DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees | 4.0 | I used Amazon EKS for testing and found it easy to deploy with helpful autoscaling and automation features, though pricing felt high. Overall, it performed well, and once understood, managing clusters became straightforward during my internship experience. |
Gen AI Engineer at U.S. Bank | 4.5 | I used Amazon EKS to deploy scalable AI applications with strong automation and security, despite its complex setup. It simplifies Kubernetes management, though monitoring could improve. Overall, it's effective and I’d recommend it based on my experience. |
Cloud DevSecOps Engineer at USAA | 4.0 | I've used Amazon EKS for five years, valuing its scalability, managed services, and IAM integration, though monitoring and long-term costs could improve. Support is excellent, and I'd recommend it after careful cost-benefit analysis depending on your use case. |
Back End Developer at Zeta | 5.0 | I've used Amazon EKS for microservices and found it reliable, with strong AWS integration and helpful self-healing features. The dashboard is insightful, though UI improvements for config visibility would enhance usability. Overall, it's streamlined our operations. |