AWS Elastic Kubernetes, also known as Amazon EKS is a managed service that makes the usage and working of Kubernetes easy. It lets you operate Kubernetes on AWS without downloading, managing and running your control aircraft of nodes for Kubernetes.

Kubernetes is an open-source framework for automating the cloud-based application deployment, scaling and management.

 

What is AWS Elastic Kubernetes?

As discussed above, Amazon EKS is a commanded service that makes the process of running Kubernetes easy and simple. EKS operates upstream Kubernetes and is trained to adhere to Kubernetes so that you can take advantage of the open-source software. You can also easily migrate any regular programme from Kubernetes to EKS without refactoring your code.

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What is Kubernetes?

Kubernetes is an expandable, portable, open-source framework that enables both declarative configuration and automation for the management of containerized workloads and services. It has a broad ecosystem which is rapidly growing. By the means of Amazon EKS, all organisations that use AWS can enjoy the full functions of Kubernetes without the need to install Kubernetes itself (Kubernetes).

 

How AWS Elastic Kubernetes works?

In just 4 easy steps, you can start with Amazon EKS. The steps are laid under.

1. First things first, you need to start by building an Amazon EKS cluster. To create the same, you can do it in the AWS Management Console.
2. The second step in the process requires you to launch nodes that are managed or are self-managed and register the same with EKS cluster. For the same, an AWS cloud formation template is provided that sets up your nodes automatically.
3. Once your cluster is ready, you can configure your favourite tools of Kubernetes for the process of communication with your cluster
4. For the last step, all you need to do is deploy and manage the applications the same way as you would in case of any other Kubernetes setting.

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Top 4 Benefits of AWS Elastic Kubernetes

Here we discuss the top four benefits of using AWS Elastic Kubernetes for your organization.

1.    More Availability

Elastic Kubernetes runs the management infrastructure of Kubernetes across several AWS availability areas, automatically identifies unsafe plane control and provides updates and patching on-demand, in no time.

2.    Increased Security

Elastic Kubernetes automatically adds all the new and latest security updates to the cluster control plane. AWS also closely works with the group to ensure important security concerns are resolved before any new releases.

3.    The Serverless Option

AWS Fargate is the way for serverless container computing. AWS Fargates does away with the need for server provisioning and management, allows you to define and pay for resources per application and enhance protection through design isolation of the application.

4.    Built With The Community

EKS runs upstream Kubernetes and is compatible with Kubernetes, so applications managed by EKS are completely compatible with any normal Kubernetes environment-managed applications. AWS actively, frequently communicates with the community of Kubernetes, including making changes to the code base of Kubernetes that help you take advantage of the services and functionality of AWS.

All these benefits along with others, make AWS Elastic Kubernetes a very useful service. As a part of the AWS landscape, the integration of EKS with AWS brings you closer to using all the AWS services. SNDK Corp has got you covered from here. From understanding your business’ needs to your requirements, SNDK Corp would guide you in the right direction.

 

Use Cases

Let’s have a quick glance at the use cases. The below are explained in detail and with image process.

1)   Machine Learning

Kubeflow supplemented with EKS can be used to model your machine learning workflows and can efficiently run training jobs with the use of the latest EC2 GPU-powered instant types. You can also use AWS Deep Learning Containers in TensorFlow on EKS to run training and interferences.

2)   Batch Processing

By using the Kubernetes Jobs API, you can run sequential or parallel batch workloads on your EKS cluster. You can prepare, schedule and execute your batch computing workloads using EKS across the broad spectrum of AWS computing services and features, such as Amazon EC2, Fargate and Spot instances.

3)   Web Applications

You can create and build web applications that scale up and down automatically and run through several availability zones in the highly accessible configuration. Your web applications benefit from the performance, size, reliability and availability of AWS by running on EKS. Your services also provide unique integrations with AWS networking and security services, such as server load balancers for your web application load delivery and VPCs for networking.

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Industry Example of AWS Elastic Kubernetes

Snapchat, one of the largest and the most popular social media platforms that allows its users to live in the moment, learn from around the world and have fun together. Snapchat uses Kubernetes to deal with various problems of managing and handling a large set of services. With the help of EKS, Snapchat runs over 2 million transactions in a single second. Snapchat realizes and understands that with the use of Kubernetes, multi-tasking and efficiently managing different things at once is possible (AWS).

 

Conclusion

At SNDK Corp, customer satisfaction is the ultimate goal. To practice, the same, SNDK Corp tries to understand and evaluate your problems and requirements to reflect appropriate solutions to you. SNDK Corp, also known as the AWS Consultants, stands strong as your one-stop solution for all your AWS-related needs.