Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a managed service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) for deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications using Kubernetes. EKS makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes on AWS without the need to install or operate your own Kubernetes control plane.
EKS provides a fully-managed Kubernetes environment where you can run your containers without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure. EKS manages the control plane nodes, including automatic updates and patching, while allowing you to focus on deploying your application workloads.
With EKS, you can use popular open-source tools like kubectl and Helm to interact with your cluster. You can also integrate with other AWS services such as Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring and logging, Amazon S3 for storing artifacts, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling for managing worker node groups, and more.
EKS also integrates with AWS Fargate, which allows you to run containers without having to manage any infrastructure. This means that you only pay for the resources your containers consume when they are running.
Overall, EKS simplifies the deployment of containerized applications on AWS while providing the scalability and reliability of Kubernetes.