AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon EKS

AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS delivers Kubernetes as a managed service on AWS

Customers including Snap Inc., FICO, GoDaddy, Honeywell, Intuit, Pearson, Skyscanner, Verizon, and Zendesk are adopting Amazon EKS to run Kubernetes on AWS

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 5, 2018-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS), a fully managed service that makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes on AWS. To get started with Amazon EKS visit: https://aws.amazon.com/eks.

Today, customers are running hundreds of millions of containers every week on AWS. Many of these customers use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), a highly scalable, high-performance container orchestration service that supports Docker containers and is integrated with many familiar AWS features like AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), security groups, and Elastic Load Balancing. In addition to Amazon ECS, Kubernetes has become very popular with AWS customers. A recent survey from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation found that 57 percent of Kubernetes users run Kubernetes on AWS, more than any other cloud platform.

Before Amazon EKS, operating Kubernetes clusters with high availability required specialized expertise and a meaningful amount of work. Customers needed to provision the Kubernetes management infrastructure across multiple Availability Zones (AZs), replace unhealthy infrastructure, and perform updates without causing downtime. Amazon EKS removes this complexity and delivers an architecture for production use that automatically runs the Kubernetes management infrastructure across multiple AZs to eliminate a single point of failure. Amazon EKS automatically detects and replaces unhealthy nodes, and it patches and performs on-demand version upgrades for the management infrastructure. This makes the Kubernetes infrastructure managed by Amazon EKS resilient, even to the loss of an entire AZ.

More customers run containers on AWS and Kubernetes on AWS than anywhere else, said Deepak Singh, Director of AWS Compute Services. Prior to Amazon EKS, customers either had to do considerable work to architect a highly fault-tolerant way to run Kubernetes, or just accept a lack of resiliency. With the launch of Amazon EKS, customers no longer have to live with either of those trade-offs, and they get a highly available, fault-tolerant, managed Kubernetes service. It's no wonder so many of our customers are excited.

Amazon EKS takes away the pain of managing cluster operations and administration tasks, ensuring the yes, management infrastructure is properly provisioned, secure, highly available, backed up, and updated. Amazon EKS is certified Kubernetes conformant, so customers can run their existing Kubernetes applications without any code changes using existing Kubernetes tooling.

Axway, Conde Nast Taiwan, CyberAgent, EBSCO, FICO, FireEye, GoDaddy, Honeywell Movilizer, Insikt, Intuit, LogicWorks, Mercari, Numerate, Otonomo, Pearson, RetailMeNot, Schibsted, Skyscanner, Snap Inc., Teradata, Time Inc. UK, Trainline, Verisk, Verizon, and Zendesk are just a few of the customers who are adopting Amazon EKS to run Kubernetes on AWS.

Intuit Inc. is a business and financial software company that develops and sells financial, accounting, and tax preparation software and related services for small businesses, accountants, and individuals. Intuit helps millions of customers improve their financial lives, said Pratik Wadher, VP, Intuit. Amazon EKS lets us combine the flexibility of Kubernetes with the scalability, reliability, and security of AWS. We plan to leverage Amazon EKS as a key component of our containers strategy so we can continue to innovate and power prosperity for our customers.

Pearson is an education publishing and assessment service for schools, corporations, and students that's seen a rapid growth in adoption in the past year. The opportunity to leverage Amazon EKS allows us to hugely simplify the amount of automation and infrastructure we need to directly manage, said Chris Jackson, Director Cloud Platforms, Pearson. This, in turn, gives us more time to focus on a fantastic developer experience for our internal teams, which will ultimately allow them to spend more time building world class digital education services. Leveraging the rate of new developments in AWS helps my team to build like a start-up even though we are part of a major enterprise business.

Snap Inc. is a camera company focused on empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. 191 million people use Snapchat every day - to Snap with family and friends, watch Stories, and explore content from top publishers and around the world. Snapchat serves millions of people around the world every day, and were thrilled to now leverage Amazon EKS as a core compute service that can meet our needs now, as well as upcoming plans to host several critical workloads in the coming months, said Alex Strand, Senior Director of Engineering, Snap Inc.

EBSCO Information Services is the leading provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, ebooks, and discovery services for academic and public libraries. We are very excited to join the Amazon EKS community, where we can take advantage of the ever-growing Kubernetes ecosystem while AWS absorbs the complexity, said Tom Mitchell, Vice President of Architecture, EBSCO. Having a unified architecture for both our on-premises and public cloud infrastructure allows us to evolve our products and migrate our workloads to AWS methodically over time, without negatively impacting our customers.

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