Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
Kubernetes is another open source container orchestration solution. It groups containers that make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery. Kubernetes takes care of scaling and managing your containers, taking care of failover options to ensure your application keeps running.
Amazon EKS is AWS's offering to help you deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes on AWS.
In this section, we looked at the basics of containerization and how it can be used to effectively deploy and manage your application stack. We discussed the ECS and its two different launch types – the Fargate and EC2 launch types. We also looked at Amazon's take on Kubernetes as a container orchestration tool that uses Kubernetes.
In the next section, we will look at some additional compute solutions available from AWS.