Amazon EKS is out! What does this mean for your digital transformation?

"We can hardly contain ourselves."

This email tagline alone shut down the Internet for a few hours, and for good reason. Amazon finally made their managed Kubernetes offering, Elastic Kubernetes Service, generally available for public use. While this service will certainly help many organizations onboard core workloads into the cloud more quickly than before, there are several ways to get to Kubernetes that might better fit your needs. What does this announcement mean for your digital transformation efforts?

What is Kubernetes?

Kubernetes is a clustered, open-source system for managing containerized applications at scale. It is inspired by Borg, Google's container orchestration system, which is used to host almost all of the Google applications that you use on a daily basis. Like Borg, Kubernetes is designed for massive scalability: companies such as OpenAI and Huawei are using over 2,000 Kubernetes nodes to manage tens of thousands of containers per day! Kubernetes is also flexible enough to support several use-cases, from stateful, long-lived databases to extremely-ephemeral serverless workloads.

What is Elastic Kubernetes Service?

Amazon's Elastic Kubernetes Service is a managed Containers-as-a-Service offering that significantly simplifies the deployment of Kubernetes on AWS. With EKS, you simply create your own Kubernetes workers through the EKS Wizard. Creating the Kubernetes master cluster and configuring networking, service discovery and other Kubernetes primitives is done for you.

EKS is meant to be a turn-key drop in for custom Kubernetes clusters. Most existing tooling works with EKS with little to no modifications. As well, HashiCorp just released a Terraform resource to make creating and managing EKS clusters even simpler.

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