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How to Design and Provision a Production-Ready EKS Cluster
A comprehensive guide to create and configure a production-grade Kubernetes cluster on AWS with Terraform, Helm, and other open-source tools.
According to Flexera’s 2021 State of Cloud report, AWS leads the container orchestration market share with 51% of the respondents using Amazon EKS and ECS compared to 43% for AKS and 31% for GKE.
Flexera does not share the exact breakdown between ECS vs. EKS usage, but according to Datadog’s latest Container Report, EKS usage is the lowest in terms of managed Kubernetes services offered by major cloud platforms.
Although these survey results may be skewed based on the sample size, anecdotally, it matches up with my experiences with EKS. AWS groups ECS, ECR, Fargate, and EKS under a single Containers offering, and tends to lag behind AKS and GKE in terms of Kubernetes-specific features such as support for the latest Kubernetes version, beta features (e.g. vertical pod autoscaler, custom kubelet arguments), and managed…
