Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS): A case study - M. Re Ferre' and G. Carabelli
summary
Amazon EKS offers a managed Kubernetes control plane while teams keep EC2 worker nodes and manage autoscaling groups. The case study discusses using the AWS VPC CNI that assigns secondary IPs to pods (creating per‑instance IP limits that affect design and cost), reports a dev-cluster cost estimate of about $7–8k/year, and describes a preview deployment at scale with automation and experiments running Flannel and Calico via a proxy, noting region availability limited to us‑west‑2 in preview and brittle node bootstrap behavior when all nodes were torn down.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 6:51EKS vs ECS architecture
- 12:24Transition goals and challenges
- 17:03EKS preview
- 22:47Networking and cost
- 25:38Technical tips
- 28:05Q&A
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