Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service(EKS)

EKS is a managed Kubernetes(Open-source) service

  1. Orchestrates containers using Kubernetes constructs (pods, deployments, services)
  2. Supports EC2 nodes or Fargate for worker nodes
  3. Does NOT run ECS tasks
  4. Only runs workloads defined in Kubernetes manifests

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Exam Tip

  1. ECS and EKS are separate — you choose either ECS or EKS, not both.
  2. If a question mentions Kubernetes API, kubectl, or Helm → it’s EKS
  3. If it mentions AWS-native container tasks/services → it’s ECS