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[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/resources/how-we-ensure-transparency/) [Description](#description)[Use cases](#use-cases)[Alternatives](#alternatives)[Pricing](#pricing)[Support](#support)[Reviews](#reviews) Amazon EKS ## What is Amazon EKS? Elastic Kubernetes Service that assists businesses with batch processing, cluster management, load balancing and more. ## What is Amazon EKS used for? [Patch Management](https://www.capterra.com/patch-management-software/) Top alternative Featured Overall rating Based on 10 user reviews Reviews sentiment Positive \- Neutral \- Negative \- Contact vendor for pricing Free trial not available Capterra Shortlist charts the highest-rated and most popular products... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Do you work for Amazon EKS?[Manage this product listing](https://digitalmarkets.gartner.com/get-listed/claim-bx?url=https://aws.amazon.com/&name=Amazon EKS) ## Compare with a popular alternative Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status. ### Amazon EKS 4.5 (10) VS. [4.6 (1,627)](https://www.capterra.com/p/170018/ManageEngine-Desktop-Central/reviews/) Starting Price Contact vendor Starting Price $795 Per User, Per Year Free Trial Free Version Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version Ease Of Use 3.9 (10) Ease Of Use 4.5 (1,626) Value For Money 3.9 (8) Value For Money 4.5 (1,476) Customer Service 4.2 (6) Customer Service 4.5 (1,471) ## Amazon EKS alternatives [4.6 (390)](https://www.capterra.com/p/179288/Patch-Manager-Plus/reviews/) Starting price $245.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 96% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [4.9 (237)](https://www.capterra.com/p/180609/Action1-RMM/reviews/) Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 99% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars Highest Rated [4.9 (480)](https://www.capterra.com/p/181954/Iru/reviews/) Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 99% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [4.7 (153)](https://www.capterra.com/p/148872/Automox/reviews/) Starting price $1.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 98% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [View all alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/235073/Amazon-EKS/alternatives/) ## Pricing Value for money 3.9 (8) ### Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Free trial not available Value for money 3.9 (8) 3.9 Based on 8 reviews ## Support, customer service and training options Customer Service 4.2 (6) Support - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat Training - In Person - Live Online - Webinars - Documentation - Videos Deployment - Web - Android - iPhone/iPad Typical users - Freelancers - Small businesses - Mid size businesses - Enterprises Customer Service 4.2 (6) 4.2 Based on 6 reviews ## User reviews Overall rating 4.5 Based on 10 reviews Filter by rating 5(5) 4(5) 3(0) 2(0) 1(0) Mentioned topic Sorted by most recent GR Gaspar R. Infrastructure Principal Media Production ### "One of the best managed Kubernetes implementations out there" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 July 6, 2023 By using EKS (migrated from VMs) we've improved costs, reliability and ease of deployments. Plus, thanks to Kubernetes namespaces, we created sandbox per git branch, which is a big plus for development teams. Pros \- Flexible upgrades. Compared with other implementations, such as GKE on which they force upgrades without noticing, you can control when and how the cluster is gonna be upgraded.- IAM integration.- EKS Managed add-ons- Managed nodes based on Fargate or EC2- Terraform EKS module maintained officially by AWS- Integrations with almost all AWS services, including ALB as an Ingress controller- Secrets encryption using KMS Cons Nothing comes to mind right now regarding improvements (compared with major providers, such as GKE) Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. SV Sakthi v. System Administrator Information Technology and Services ### "Good service for Kubernetes cluster management" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 March 28, 2023 Good kubernetes management tool Pros Amazon EKS support to manage containers with highly scalable,load balancing and provide more security AWS EKS support container deployment to AWS Outposts, virtual machines, or bare metal servers. Cons AWS EKS are good for container management but it will not support all regions. Need to add all regions support and need to add kubernetes versions early when kubernetes release. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AU Anonymous User Devops Information Technology and Services ### "One of the best Managed Kubernetes Platform" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 March 23, 2023 Pros Control Plane management is very easy, we just have to focus on the addons. Managed Node Group and Self Managed Node group are good mix of flexibility and reliability principle. EKS Blueprint is another thing which is supported AWS community. Cons Sometimes they release latest Kubernetes version on EKS little late. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AU Anonymous User Cloud Engineer Transportation/Trucking/Railroad ### "EKS is a great tool if you are doing only AWS" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 2.0 2.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 7/10 December 30, 2022 I enjoy using it and support is quick. It can be a bit slow at times. Pros It integrates easily with your AWS stack and upgrading is a safe and easy process. Cons Plugins and add-ons are a bit tricky to manage when you have a large number of clusters. Alternatives considered [Nomad](https://www.capterra.com/p/246773/Nomad/) Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. IP Isak P. Developer Computer Software ### "Convenient and reliable Kubernetes on AWS" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 3.0 3.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 6/10 December 29, 2022 Amazon EKS is a convenient and reliable option for running Kubernetes on AWS. It is a good choice for users who want to focus on running their applications rather than managing the underlying infrastructure, but it may not be the best fit for those who want more control over their Kubernetes clusters and it is quite expensive for small clusters. Pros Amazon EKS simplifies the process of running Kubernetes on AWS. You don't have to worry about setting up and maintaining the infrastructure for your Kubernetes clusters. It integrates seamlessly with other AWS services, making it pretty easy to integrate with other AWS tools and services. Cons Amazon EKS can be more expensive than running your own Kubernetes clusters, as you have to pay for the managed service. Some users may prefer to have more control over the infrastructure and configuration of their Kubernetes clusters, which is not possible with Amazon EKS. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AU Anonymous User Software Developer Computer Software ### "Cluster created without sweat" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 December 11, 2022 Elastic Kubernetes Service in short is expensive but highly recommended software my side as the master node cannot be used by any without any permission and adding node groups and providing permission is very easy. Pros It's a great feature in AWS having many features. It helped me create multiple cluster of kubernetes without much hassle as the core dns is set-up initially. But in manual installation we need to install network driver seperately so it will be difficult for fresher. Cons I don't find anything as such as con but sometimes node groups fails to auto scale which I am not sure as Iam role attached is working fine. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AU Anonymous User Platform Engineer Banking ### "Amazon EKS is the solution to 8/10 of your cluster requirements" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 October 6, 2022 Overall Amazon EKS is the way to go for best kubernetes cloud service. AWS are still the leaders in cloud services. Pros Using Amazon EKS you have very less to worry about underlying infrastructure, so you can focus more on getting your features & services deployed. It is highly scalable, highly available & AWS support has always been on spot. Depending upon your needs, you can choose to manage the underlying nodes & pods manually, through node groups or fargate if your product is not too complex & can be automatically managed by AWS. Cons Cost is one of the biggest cons, just comparing it with other similar kubernetes services. Specially if you are using fargate. Another con would be on dashboard management & automatic alerts in case resources or pods are left running. Reasons for choosing Amazon EKS Matured product, better support & higher reliability. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AU Anonymous User ICT Business Solution Manager Mining & Metals ### "scalable service to run kubernetes" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 September 9, 2022 I'm deploying and monitoring application on EKS, both process are executed perfectly Pros excellent service for running and scaling kubernetes, great security and integrated with various AWS service Cons EKS is expensive, and although EKS can integrate with other AWS service (obviously) but you have to do it manually Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Pawe W. Softwarem Engineer Computer Software ### "Managing Kubernetes with AWS Service" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 3.0 3.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 6/10 August 27, 2022 It helped to automate some of the DevOps processes that were previously done manually. Pros I really enjoyed using EKS to create web applications that are automatically scaling and running with High Availability using Kubernetes underneath. It takes some of the configuration burden from the engineers. Cons This is definetely not an easy service to use - I personally find it one of the most difficult services of AWS that required knowledge of not only AWS itself but Kubernetes as well. I found Google Cloud Platform to be easier to integrate with Kubernetes (Google Compute Engine + GKE) Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Gianluigi M. Dev and DevOps Engineer Information Technology and Services ### "Easy Kubernetes management tool" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 3.0 3.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 May 12, 2022 With EKS we can concentrate our effort on the infrastructure and on our applications. No more problem related to master node, down status, upgrades and so on. Excellent. Pros Maintenance overhead needed when you install self provisioned K8S cluster is very high. With EKS maintenance of master nodes is not needed anymore. Reliability of the service is another plus. Furthermore the easy integration with vertical cluster autoscaler allows to scale up/down nodes saving many money. Cons Managed master node means you can't have totale control over the cluster. Limited network management is an example. Support for the latest version of K8S is usually not really fast. 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