Amazon EKS Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS ) is a managed Kubernetes service offered by AWS that makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes on AWS or on-premises. 🔍 What is Amazon EKS? Amazon EKS is a fully managed Kubernetes control plane , meaning AWS handles all the heavy lifting for you: Automatically provisions and manages the Kubernetes master nodes Ensures high availability across multiple Availability Zones (AZs) Handles updates , patches , and scaling of control plane components ⚙️ Key Components of Amazon EKS 1. Control Plane Fully managed by AWS Runs across multiple AZs Includes API server , controller manager , and scheduler 2. Worker Nodes You manage worker nodes Can be EC2 instances or Fargate (serverless) Use Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) optimized for EKS 3. EKS Add-ons Managed add-ons for networking (e.g., VPC CNI ), observability (e.g., CloudWatch Agent ), Co...