What are AWS and Amazon EKS?

There is a very good chance you have already heard of AWS, as not only is it one of the first public cloud providers, but also, at the time of writing, it has the largest market share.

AWS

As you may have already guessed, AWS is owned and operated by Amazon. Amazon, the retailer, first started to dabble with cloud services way back in 2000 when they started to develop and deploy application programming interfaces (APIs) for their retail partners to consume.

Off the back of this work, Amazon realized that they would need to build a better and more standardized infrastructure platform to not only host the services they had been developing but to also ensure that they could quickly scale, as more of the Amazon retail outlet was consuming more of the software services and was growing at an expediential rate.

Chris Pinkham and Benjamin Black wrote a white paper in 2003 that was approved by Jeff Bezos in 2004, which described an infrastructure platform...