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Re: Amazon EKS – Now Generally Available

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Most likely yes. They've seen the writing on the wall, that K8s has won. It will probably just be a slow deprecation like they did with Simple DB.

It wasn't a particularly friendly service for developers, anyway.

Isn't ECS the AWS optimized version and EKS the more basic stuff?

Re: Amazon EKS – Now Generally Available

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For those trying to spin it up while the docs aren't available, I ran into some issues with the IAM role.

Basically, create a new role with a trust relationship to `eks.amazonaws.com`, with the AmazonEKSClusterPolicy and AmazonEKSServicePolicy attached to it, and you should be good.

Thank you AWS, for having consistent naming schemes.

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Does this mean ECS is going away? It’s sort of strange that they have two managed-container-deployment products.

The use and functionality you get from ECS and EKS can be quite different. ECS is tightly AWS-integrated, EKS is designed to be cloud-independent. You can pick between ECS and EKS based on your needs and use Fargate as the interface to either.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It wasn't a particularly friendly service for developers, anyway.

Isn't ECS the AWS optimized version and EKS the more basic stuff?

No, ECS is a homegrown container orchestration service that has no relationship with Kubernetes.

EKS is the optimized-for-AWS version of Kubernetes.

There’s also AWS Fargate, which is a more managed version of ECS.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It wasn't a particularly friendly service for developers, anyway.

Isn't ECS the AWS optimized version and EKS the more basic stuff?

ECS is their entirely custom container orchestrator. EKS is just hosted Kubernetes with AWS integrations.

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> You pay $0.20 per hour for the EKS Control Plane, and usual EC2, EBS, and Load Balancing prices for resources that run in your account Objectively that's not bad for HA masters in separate AZs, but I think for those who have been using Kubernetes on the Google cloud it's certainly going to have a hard time competing with "you don't pay anything for HA masters at all." > ingress from the Twitch stream, it sounds lik…

HA seems like a poor choice as a default. I don't want to pay ~$150/month for dev and staging clusters, and I certainly don't need them to be HA.

IIUC, Google/GKE and Microsoft/AKS are single-zone by default... free for masters, but not free for HA.

Re: Amazon EKS – Now Generally Available

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Been waiting for this for... 7 months now since its announcement at ReInvent?

My initial impressions are very negative. What even is the point of this? The clusters themselves do nothing, they're just a control plane you pay $144/month for. You need to add nodes from CloudFormation? Is there any integration at all with CodeBuild/CodeDeploy/CodePipeline? No mention anywhere of Ingress... I sure hope that's built in, but from what I'm reading it isn't? What was Amazon thinking by releasing this so unfinished?

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> You pay $0.20 per hour for the EKS Control Plane, and usual EC2, EBS, and Load Balancing prices for resources that run in your account Objectively that's not bad for HA masters in separate AZs, but I think for those who have been using Kubernetes on the Google cloud it's certainly going to have a hard time competing with "you don't pay anything for HA masters at all." > ingress from the Twitch stream, it sounds lik…

I look at this more as a product catering to existing AWS customers (and not have them move to GC) rather than trying to lure GC customers over to AWS.

Re: Amazon EKS – Now Generally Available

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't ECS the AWS optimized version and EKS the more basic stuff?

No, ECS is a homegrown container orchestration service that has no relationship with Kubernetes. EKS is the optimized-for-AWS version of Kubernetes. There’s also AWS Fargate, which is a more managed version of ECS.

There were public presentations where Fargate would have an EKS deployment option.

(Disclaimer: I work for Amazon, but don't have inside knowledge of the AWS Containers Organization's plans.)

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