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AWScompute

EKS

Amazon EKS is a managed Kubernetes service with an AWS-operated control plane and integrations for networking, identity, storage, and observability.

First availableOpen official documentation
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Major features

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Typical architecture

A managed control plane coordinates workloads running on managed nodes or serverless capacity with external ingress and observability.

Common use cases

  • Kubernetes application platforms
  • Portable container workloads
  • Multi-team cluster operations

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