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PROS

Amazon EKS is user-friendly with straightforward initial setup, typically taking just 15 minutes to deploy.
It offers excellent scalability and autoscaling features, allowing effective management and scaling of infrastructure.
The stability of Amazon EKS is highly rated, providing a reliable and robust platform for users.
Amazon EKS supports advanced security features and integrates well with AWS cloud services for secure and efficient operation.
It facilitates easy management of Kubernetes nodes and clusters, minimizing the administrative burden on users.

CONS

Amazon EKS setup is complex and initial setup could be improved for better user experience.
Amazon EKS pricing model is considered expensive, particularly affecting medium-sized customers with high support costs.
Amazon EKS could enhance its documentation for better understanding and easier navigation.
Connectivity issues are present, impacting cluster communication with local machines.
Amazon EKS management and integration features require improvement, particularly node management and Jira integration.
 

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.
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.
reviewer2754210 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 2, 2025
By integrating AWS IAM roles with Amazon EKS service accounts, we can leverage other services from Amazon EKS such as S3, Secrets Manager, or EC2, and the concept of IRSA helps us integrate with external services of the Amazon EKS cluster easily.
Fedir Plotnikov - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 28, 2025
What I appreciate best about Amazon EKS is that it's a great solution, especially for teams who search for flexibility and who are in active development of microservices architecture.
Md Sohail - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 2, 2025
The most valuable aspect of Amazon EKS, from my perspective as someone who has worked with on-premises solutions, is that it eliminates manual setup requirements, handles everything automatically, and removes the effort of manual configuration that is necessary with on-premises solutions.
Yossi Shmulevitch - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 25, 2025
Based on my experience, the best features are backed up with extensive security that AWS allows and is firmly integrated into their entire AWS cloud.
 

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.
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.
reviewer2754210 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 2, 2025
One area of Amazon EKS that could be improved in the future is related to the behavior of the cluster autoscaler.
Fedir Plotnikov - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 28, 2025
What could be improved in Amazon EKS is the documentation. It's pretty dynamic, moving too fast, and sometimes the documentation doesn't reflect the migration between changes, especially if you use some non-native vendor enterprise components and CRDM modules.
Md Sohail - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 2, 2025
While exploring options for potential Amazon EKS downtime scenarios, we found Velero to be the only backup option, which is both overwhelming and complicated to set up.
Yossi Shmulevitch - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 25, 2025
The major area for improvement I've seen involves deep diving into one CSP with no equivalent solution elsewhere.