Amazon EKS Reviews and Pricing

Sâmeque Mendes

DevOps Engineer | AWS and Terraform Specialist | Multicloud Experience at a agriculture with 11-50 employees

Apr 28, 2025

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multi-application deployment using advanced networking and autoscaling features

Pros and Cons

"Amazon EKS is very stable, and when properly configured, I rate it ten out of ten."

"My first experience with Amazon EKS was difficult, and I would rate the initial setup as two because it was challenging without prior experience in microservices."

What is our primary use case?

I use Amazon EKS to provide the computing power for my applications. We have over thirty clusters in Amazon EKS. Our team uses Amazon EKS to deploy new applications using Helm and to manage our infrastructure. We use Amazon EKS to scale and deploy more applications using different namespaces. Amazon EKS services help us provide clusters where we deploy APIs, services, cron jobs, and other applications to support our services.

What is most valuable?

The features I find most valuable in Amazon EKS include the VPC CNI, which provides networking inside the cluster, and the EBS CSI driver, which is an example of the add-ons used with Amazon EKS. Kube-proxy for DNS is also a valuable feature. The features we use for managing container applications, like scheduling and scaling, simplify our use of Amazon EKS.

What needs improvement?

I would like to see improvements in the management capabilities that are native to AWS for Amazon EKS. Our current use involves using a different tool to administer the management, and I believe enhancing this aspect would be beneficial.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Amazon EKS for four or five years, mostly in financial services.

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What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

During the initial setup, I needed to learn about Docker, networking, and microservices, which was a challenge as I didn't have a background in microservices. My first application took three months to deploy, but now, with automation and CI/CD, we can deploy cycles of twenty applications swiftly. Initially, two people were required to deploy Amazon EKS.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Amazon EKS is very stable, and when properly configured, I rate it ten out of ten. In my notes, it's a nine. I did experience some challenges with network stability but was able to resolve them with AWS technical support.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We use the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) to provide elasticity to our applications. This allows us to scale our applications or APIs as needed, offering reliability through the automation of scaling processes. I rate the scalability as higher than eight.

How are customer service and support?

Technical support from AWS for Amazon EKS is excellent. I rate it eight out of ten. Recently, we faced a network issue, and AWS technical support provided guidance to resolve the problem successfully. Their support was crucial for directing our efforts and solving our IP-related issues.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

How was the initial setup?

My first experience with Amazon EKS was difficult, and I would rate the initial setup as two because it was challenging without prior experience in microservices. However, after the initial setup, my perception improved, and I now rate it as five or six.

What about the implementation team?

Two people were necessary to deploy my Amazon EKS.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

We are making a significant effort to transform our usage of Amazon EKS, which was previously rated as eight or nine in terms of cost. Now, it stands at six or seven due to optimizing our workload.

What other advice do I have?

Overall, I rate Amazon EKS as a nine out of ten. It's a very stable and reliable product.

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

Last updated: Apr 28, 2025