The way to go on AWS but still with a lot of room of improvements
May 07, 2022
The way to go on AWS but still with a lot of room of improvements
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
We are using EKS to run all our dev and production workloads, which includes stateless and state-full applications.
- Managed control plane
- Autoscaling
- AWSIAM integration with Kubernetes RBAC could be better.
- Enabling some add-ons like service mesh, and monitoring will be nice instead of having to install them yourself after the creation of the cluster.
- EKS bootstrap time could be faster ...
- Control plane management
- Migrating all our workloads from ec2 VMs to containers running in Kubernetes has been a huge improvement for the management and resilience of our Infrastructure.
- EKS Upgrade process to a new version seems to be taking very long ....
- EKS creation time usually takes over 10 minutes in us-east-1, we would like faster creation times to be under 5 minutes.
It feels like AWS is behind the EKS race, the only advantage I'm able to see right now is the support of IPv6, however, trying to promote AWS alternatives that are different from the market and more like a vendor locking solutions like ECS/Fargate have kept AWS behind and focusing on the wrong things. EKS needs to really improve its integration with the Kubernetes ecosystem and have an enterprise solution for monitoring, backups, and service mesh.
Do you think Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) delivers good value for the price?
Not sure
Are you happy with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)'s feature set?
No
Did Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) again?
Yes