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 | 11.5% |
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform | 20.0% |
VMware Tanzu Platform | 12.5% |
Other | 56.0% |
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Category | Container Management | Aug 28, 2025 | Download |
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Comparison | Amazon EKS vs Kubernetes | Aug 28, 2025 | Download |
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Microsoft Defender for Cloud | 4.0 | 1.1% | 94% | 78 interviewsAdd to research |
Red Hat OpenShift | 4.2 | 2.4% | 95% | 62 interviewsAdd to research |
Company Size | Count |
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Small Business | 22 |
Midsize Enterprise | 13 |
Large Enterprise | 24 |
Company Size | Count |
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Small Business | 164 |
Midsize Enterprise | 137 |
Large Enterprise | 615 |
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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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 SOC Developer at XVE Security | 4.5 | We migrated our services to Amazon EKS for container-based backends due to its simplicity and management portal. It's effective, though improved logging would be helpful. Fast deployment and good documentation offer a positive ROI. Alternatives were considered before choosing AWS. |
DevOps Engineer at Cloudquik | 4.5 | I’ve used Amazon EKS for cloud migrations and managing production workloads due to its scalability, automation, and AWS integrations. It’s stable, easy to set up, and supports tools like Helm, Argo CD, and Prometheus for efficient operations. |
Integration Specialist at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees | 4.0 | We've been migrating on-prem apps to AWS using Lambda, CloudWatch, and EKS. It's scalable and easy to manage, though initial setup and documentation were challenging. Support is helpful, and the platform simplifies deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting. |
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. |
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. |
cloud architect at selfstarter | 4.0 | I manage production environments with Amazon EKS, which simplifies Kubernetes master node management, allowing me to focus on business code. It's especially useful for startups, though it could improve support for more plugins to reduce network latency. |
DevOps Engineer at Helvar | 4.0 | No summary available |