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How EKS works (official illustration) Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

Amazon released AWS EKS with the primary objective being to run Kubernetes open-source container management framework, at scale, on AWS.

Why Amazon EKS? Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed service.

EKS makes it easy for you to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to stand up or maintain your own Kubernetes control plane. It runs Kubernetes control plane instances across multiple Availability Zones to ensure high availability and also automatically detects and replaces unhealthy control plane instances.

Fully managed service, meaning it operates and maintains your Kubernetes control plane.
Runs the Kubernetes management infrastructure for you across multiple AWS availability zones to eliminate a single point of failure.
Certified Kubernetes conformant so you can use existing tooling and plugins from partners and the Kubernetes community.
Applications running on any standard Kubernetes environment are fully compatible and can be easily migrated to Amazon EKS.
Amazon EKS can also implement automatic patches

With Amazon EKS, you can take advantage of all the performance, scale, reliability, and availability of the AWS platform, as well as integrations with AWS networking and security services, such as Application Load Balancers for load distribution, IAM for role-based access control, and VPC for pod networking