Amazon EKS is now generally available
Amazon EKS is now available for use in production form.
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Back at re:Invent 2017, Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes was announced. Good news: it is now available for use in production form.
Amazon EKS simplifies the process of building, securing, operating, and maintaining Kubernetes clusters, and brings the benefits of container-based computing to organizations that want to focus on building applications instead of setting up a Kubernetes cluster from scratch.
Prior to Amazon EKS, a lot of work had to go into architecting a fault-tolerant way to run Kubernetes. With Amazon EKS you get a highly available, fault-tolerant, managed Kubernetes service.
You can read about creating an Amazon EKS Cluster in full on Jeff Barr’s blog, or get in touch with us below if you fancy a chat.