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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

Start, run, and scale Kubernetes without thinking about cluster management

Get started with Amazon EKS

Benefits of Amazon EKS

Why Amazon EKS?

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a fully managed Kubernetes service that enables you to run Kubernetes seamlessly in both AWS Cloud and on-premises data centers. In the cloud, Amazon EKS automates Kubernetes cluster infrastructure management. This is essential for scheduling containers, managing application availability, dynamically scaling resources, optimizing compute, storing cluster data, and performing other critical functions. With Amazon EKS, you can leverage the robust performance, scalability, reliability, and availability of AWS infrastructure, as well as natively integrate with AWS networking, security, and storage services. To simplify running Kubernetes in on-premises environments, you can use the same Amazon EKS clusters, features, and tools to run nodes on AWS Outposts or your own infrastructure, or you can use Amazon EKS Anywhere for self-contained, air-gapped environments.

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