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PROS

Amazon EKS is highly scalable and supports both horizontal and vertical scaling.
The autoscaling feature effectively manages workloads by automatically adjusting resources as needed.
Amazon EKS reduces administrative burdens with its self-healing nodes and automatic management of the Kubernetes master node.
Integration with AWS IAM roles enhances security and simplifies access to other AWS services.
Amazon EKS offers robust support for microservices architecture, enabling efficient, scalable, and compliant application deployment.

CONS

Amazon EKS needs improvements in stability and operational reliability to prevent data loss and ensure better performance.
Amazon EKS pricing model can be expensive, particularly for medium-sized customers, and requires better cost management options.
Users experience difficulties with the initial setup and configuration of Amazon EKS, which proves complex without prior expertise in Kubernetes.
Integration of security measures aligned with government standards remains an area for improvement in Amazon EKS.
Documentation for Amazon EKS is fragmented and dynamic, making it challenging to comprehend and navigate for beginners.
 

Amazon EKS Pros review quotes

Patryk Golabek - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 24, 2021
The solution is easy to use.
Sameer Mirza - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 21, 2025
The value of Amazon EKS for us is due to our microservice-level architecture, where we need to automate and have a fast, scalable application, allowing us to directly configure the Amazon EKS cluster in the application, which will make it very easy to run our application smoothly and scalably.
ON
Aug 12, 2025
The main benefits from using Amazon EKS include it being a well-tested product that we can use to deploy our workload; its management system is very efficient, we can deploy things very easily and resolve our issues efficiently, and it has deep AWS integration and a managed control plane.
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reviewer2543025 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 12, 2024
Application deployment is more automatic.
reviewer2755269 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 5, 2025
I would recommend Amazon EKS to other organizations because it provides simple configuration, easy management, safety, granular access, and vast monitoring capabilities where we can easily monitor our clusters using CloudWatch.
VictorAugusto De Souza E Silva - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 5, 2025
The integration of Kubernetes with the AWS ecosystem is the best feature that Amazon EKS provides.
Igor Khomiakov - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 3, 2025
I have seen a positive impact from Amazon EKS for my organization since deployment; it provides a very robust and cost-effective platform for deploying our applications.
Sudhir Kumar Tiwari - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 4, 2025
The major advantages include reduced time, high availability, and scalability, and from a security perspective, AWS has multiple security layers including IAM roles, different ILBs, ingress controllers, and multiple security features.
Shriram Patil - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 22, 2025
What I appreciate about Amazon EKS is the autoscaling feature; when you configure the Kubernetes cluster manually on the VMs and need to add new VMs or if you run out of storage for the VM, you don't have to worry about that with Amazon EKS because it automatically scales the nodes and provides another VM ready for you automatically, which is a great aspect of Amazon EKS.
Hunaid Vekariya - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 12, 2024
The good thing was the integration of services. The only thing we had to think about was how we were pushing the code to GitHub or Bitbucket.
 

Amazon EKS Cons review quotes

Patryk Golabek - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 24, 2021
They need to work on the Amazon plugins on the Kubernetes cluster.
Sameer Mirza - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 21, 2025
We have not automated patches to be applied for the Amazon EKS cluster because it will resolve live production services.
ON
Aug 12, 2025
For a few of the cluster upgrades that got stuck, we connect with Amazon tech support, as we have business support with Amazon.
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reviewer2543025 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 12, 2024
It's difficult to connect to some of the clusters.
reviewer2755269 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 5, 2025
We struggle to divide the worker nodes' fees and the engine cost among clients, as some users have low traffic and visibility while others have large amounts of visibility and traffic.
VictorAugusto De Souza E Silva - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 5, 2025
When we set up the cluster, it appears as a huge infrastructure just for a small application.
Igor Khomiakov - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 3, 2025
Amazon EKS could improve its plugin management; while Amazon offers some improvements, they often come at an extra cost.
Sudhir Kumar Tiwari - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 4, 2025
The costing perspective could be improved. With normal on-premises servers using Kubernetes services, the costing might be slightly higher compared to other Kubernetes vendors.
Shriram Patil - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 22, 2025
I find the pricing for Amazon EKS to be quite expensive. The EKS service itself is free, but you will incur costs for the VMs used as nodes in that cluster.
Hunaid Vekariya - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 12, 2024
I would like to see a warm-up time for AWS Fargate, similar to what GCP Cloud Run has.