An overview of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a fully managed Kubernetes service that simplifies deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications using Kubernetes on AWS. It handles the Kubernetes control plane, integrates with AWS services like IAM, CloudWatch, and ELB, and supports both EC2 and Fargate for compute. EKS offers high availability, security, and scalability, allowing developers to focus on building applications without managing infrastructure. It supports standard Kubernetes tools and configurations, making it easy to migrate or integrate with existing setups. Ideal for microservices, CI/CD, and hybrid cloud workloads, EKS streamlines container orchestration in the cloud.

Amazon EKS powers microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and machine learning workloads for companies like Airbnb, Intuit, and Lyft. It supports real-time messaging (Snapchat), IoT backends (Samsung), and hybrid cloud deployments. EKS enables scalable, secure, and efficient container orchestration across industries including tech, finance, gaming, and mobile services.

AWS EKS worker node:In AWS EKS (Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service), a worker node is a machine (usually an EC2 instance or a Fargate task) that runs your application containers. An AWS EKS worker node is a virtual machine (EC2 or Fargate) that runs containerized applications in a Kubernetes cluster. Managed by the EKS control plane, worker nodes execute tasks, host pods, and scale workloads. They are essential for deploying, running, and managing applications efficiently in EKS. To learn more go to : Understanding EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) Worker