Containers · Reviewed 26 Oct 2026

Amazon EKS

Managed Kubernetes service to run, scale, and secure production applications.

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Overview

01

Summary

The useful answer before the supporting detail.

Amazon EKS is a managed Kubernetes service that runs Kubernetes applications without managing the control plane S119. It is used by developers and enterprises to build, run, and scale production-ready Kubernetes applications across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments S86. Its practical value is automating cluster infrastructure management, enabling teams to focus on innovation while leveraging AWS global infrastructure and security integrations S86.

02

Product identity and positioning

Name, category, positioning, audience, and first-party claims.

  • Identity: Amazon EKS, a managed Kubernetes service by AWS S119.
  • Core purpose: Runs Kubernetes applications without managing, securing, or scaling a control plane S119.
  • Intended users: Developers and enterprises running production Kubernetes workloads S86.
  • Product scope: A managed service, not a platform; includes cluster management and integrations with AWS services S86.
  • Positioning: Simplifies Kubernetes operations and unifies management across environments S86.
  • Claimed distinction: Leverages AWS global infrastructure and native security integrations S86.
03

Use cases and audiences

Who the product serves and the jobs it is designed to handle.

AudiencePractical use case
DevelopersBuild and scale production-ready Kubernetes applications S86.
Platform teamsBuild internal development platforms with standardized application management S86.
Data engineersRun cost-effective batch processing and big data workloads S86.
AI/ML teamsManage distributed training and inference deployments for generative AI S86.
Enterprises with hybrid infrastructureDeploy and run distributed hybrid applications across cloud and on-premises S86.

Features

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Features and capabilities

Core functions and evidence-backed product capabilities.

CapabilityWhat it does
Managed control planeAutomates Kubernetes control plane management, including security and scaling S119.
Hybrid and edge deploymentRun workloads across cloud, on-premises, and edge locations with standardized tooling S86.
Generative AI workloadsScale and operate production-grade AI applications with distributed training and inference S86.
Internal developer platformsBuild standardized application management environments combining open source with AWS services S86.
Data platform supportSupport cost-effective batch processing and big data workloads S86.
Application migrationLift and shift on-premises apps or build microservices-based applications S86.
10

Integrations and ecosystem

Connected products, exports, APIs, and workflow compatibility.

Integration or interfaceTypeWhat it enables
AWS Security ServicesIntegrationProvides native integrations for a secure environment S86.
AWS global infrastructureIntegrationLeverages AWS's global infrastructure for reliability and scale S86.
Open source technologyIntegrationCombines open source with AWS services for internal platforms S86.
AWS servicesIntegrationSeamlessly combines with AWS services for standardized environments S86.

Pricing

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Pricing and plans

Published plans, free access, trials, credits, and pricing limitations.

Plan or offerVerified price and billingIncludedLimits
Standard Kubernetes version support$0.10 per cluster per hour S119Not establishedFirst 14 months after a version's EKS release S119
Extended Kubernetes version support$0.60 per cluster per hour (Standard + $0.50) S119Not established12 further months on a version S119
Provisioned Control Plane XL$1.65 per cluster per hour, in addition to cluster pricing S119Not establishedLarger tiers: 2XL $3.40, 4XL $6.90, 8XL $13.90 per cluster per hour S119

Competition

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Competitive landscape

Domains competing for the same organic search demand.

Sampled competitors

CompetitorFirst-page appearancesSampled queriesAverage positionQueries observed
spr.com223.56 r's, 6 rs
netapp.com227.56 r's, 6 rs
gdt.com1126 r's
learn.microsoft.com1126 rs
comsoltx.com1136 r's
lucid.co1136 rs
dev.to1146 r's
leanix.net1146 rs
wigan.gov.uk1156 r's
interlaced.io1156 rs

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Customers, testimonials, and first-party review claims

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

Independent review sources discovered

No links to supported independent review platforms were discovered on the collected pages.

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AI visibility

Measured ChatGPT and Google AI mentions with cited sources.

AI-assistant referral traffic

  • Estimated current generative-AI referral share: 1.5%
MonthSource
—All AI assistants
—All AI assistants
—All AI assistants

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Site-stated AI capabilities

Page typeEvidenceSource
featuresUse agent mode for a conversational discovery experience that’s purpose-built for software procurement. Describe your use case, ask questions, compare products side-by-side, and generate customized purchasing proposals. Use the AI-enhanced search to discover solutions for your use case and start evaluating your options on product pages or in agent mode.https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/features
featuresAccess thousands of customer reviews and compare similar products side-by-side to help inform your decision. Request product demos and custom pricing directly from product pages to contact sellers quickly.https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/features
featuresLaunch templated Single Pane of Glass dashboards to get insights and granular visibility into your software procurement. For a high-level overview of your spend and agreements, access the procurement insights dashboard in the AWS Marketplace console.https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/features
featuresAI platforms that can help you simplify data experimentation and formulate deeper insights from disparate sources across your data estate.https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/solutions
featuresDS Smith Enhances Procurement Spending Insights Using ML-powered Solution from Exponentia.ai on AWShttps://aws.amazon.com/security/partner-solutions/
featuresWhether you're looking to cut costs, protect your data, reach more customers, or put AI to work, find the right cloud solution for your business in minutes, not months. Start on your own or get matched with a trusted AWS Partner.https://aws.amazon.com/smart-business/solutions/
featuresWithout a dedicated IT team, every technology decision falls on you. You can't afford downtime, a data breach, or to fall behind on AI. The right cloud solution, set up by the right AWS Partner, handles the complexity—so you can stay focused on growing your business.https://aws.amazon.com/smart-business/solutions/
featuresPut AI to work—without a big teamhttps://aws.amazon.com/smart-business/solutions/
featuresWith DeepRacer on AWS you'll learn fundamental concepts, skills, and machine learning (ML) training techniques that power foundation models in some of the most advanced generative AI applications today through the fun of racing autonomous cars.https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/
featuresGenerative AI Deployments using Amazon SageMaker JumpStarthttps://aws.amazon.com/solutions/
featuresThis Guidance demonstrates how to deploy a generative artificial intelligence (AI) model provided by Amazon SageMaker JumpStart to create an asynchronous SageMaker endpoint with the ease of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK).https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/
features](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/solutions/generative-ai-deployments-using-amazon-sagemaker-jumpstart/)https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/
pricingFor AWS Compute and AWS Machine Learning, Savings Plans offer savings over On-Demand in exchange for a commitment to use a specific amount (measured in $/hour) of an AWS service or a category of services, for a one- or three-year period.https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/
pricingSavings Plans is a flexible pricing model that provides significant savings on your AWS usage. This pricing model offers lower prices on AWS Compute and AWS Machine Learning. Savings Plans offer savings over On-Demand in exchange for a commitment to use a specific amount (measured in $/hour) of an AWS service or a category of services, for a one- or three-year period.https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/
pricingAmazon Bedrock offers select foundation models (FMs) from leading AI providers like Anthropic, Meta, Mistral AI, and Amazon for batch inference at a 50% lower price compared to on-demand inference pricing. To learn more about Batch, click [here](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/batch-inference.html "batch tier"). Please refer to model list [here](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/batch-inference-supported.html "model list").https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/

These are first-party product claims, not independent measurements of AI-search visibility.

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Marketing opportunities

Actions calculated directly from the collected evidence.

OpportunityRecommended actionEvidence
Competitor gap2 first-page appearances across 6 r's, 6 rs

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Website evidence gaps

  • integrations: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • customers: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • reviews: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • changes: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • identity: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • technical: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.

Trust and proof

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Customers, proof, and reviews

Published proof, customer signals, and review evidence.

Independent reviews

PlatformPageHow it was foundNote
TrustpilotAws Amazon Reviews / Read Customer Service Reviews of aws.amazon.comGrounded web search# Aws Amazon Reviews 366 ... Most reviewers were let down by their experience overall. Consumers express widespread dissatisfaction with the service provided by the company. People have voiced concerns about various aspects, including the service itself, the company website, and the level of customer service they received. The user experience has also been a significant point of criticism, with many reviewers finding it subpar. Furthermore, several consumers have raised issues with payment proce
Bernard MarrDelivery Hero and AWS: Cost Optimization in the Cloud / Bernard MarrGrounded web searchAWS cloud services enabled Delivery Hero to undertake several initiatives aimed at reducing costs while maintaining service levels. One of these was increasing the use of “spot instances” – an AWS feature that allows its customers to utilize spare cloud computing capacity (Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute) at significantly reduced costs. Krenz told me that some of their teams managed to move up to 90 percent of their workloads onto these spot instances, leading to substantial savings with no impact

Customer proof

Proof typeNamed customer or sourceEvidence
Case studyUniversity Hospital Essencustomer case study — applications. (Building tomorrow’s healthcare applications with University Hospital Essen and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud)
Case studyGoDaddytestimonial — Agility and Scale Using AWS Cloud Operations with GoDaddy We recently published a case study with Amazon Web Services about how GoDaddy uses AWS to improve management, governance, and observability across the products we deve… (Improving Company Agility and Scale Using AWS Cloud Operations with GoDaddy - GoDaddy Blog)
Case studycitiustech.comcustomer case study — The customer, a global pharmaceutical and medical device company, wanted to revolutionize their cataract refractive suite to deliver a better experience to their consumers. (CitiusTech modernizes cataract surgery planning platform for a global pharma company)

Independent mentions

  • ClearDATA and AWS Help CareCloud Run a HIPAA — and speed innovation by using Amazon Web Services (AWS). CareCloud chose to partner with ClearDATA, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) APN Advanced Consulting ... Healthcare Competency Partner. CareCloud runs its primary application platform on the ClearDATA
  • How Octave built a secure multi-tenant AI foundation on Amazon Bedrock / Artificial Intelligence — quality could not be traded for throughput. A missed complaint erodes trust in the whole system ... execution passes a user request through AgentCore Gateway, a ... worked until the documents were retrievable. That meant accurately, across languages
  • Launching streaming services in 15 minutes on AWS with Vimond — At Vimond, we believe professional-grade streaming should be accessible to every content creator. By re-architecting our platform on AWS, we’ve optimised our operations to deliver significant benefits directly to our customers: a 35% reduction in infrastructure costs and the ability to deploy fully functional streaming apps in under 15 minutes. Our AWS-powered ecosystem lets you scale your business efficiently, paying only for what you use, while reaching global audiences in over 30 languages.
  • Kayo Sports Delivers Personalised Experiences with AWS - Content + Technology — Kayo), a multi-sports streaming service and content aggregator for Australian sports fans ... is running the majority of its IT infrastructure on AWS’ cloud platform to deliver personalised customer experiences at scale for more than a million subscribers
  • Adopting Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Success - North East Chamber of Commerce — Through working with managed AWS services partner Perfect Image, Bellway Homes was able to migrate to an AWS platform that offered greater reliability, scalability, and a much faster disaster recovery option. Previously,

External links were grounded in one live web search. Search snippets are leads, not independently scraped page content; rejected links remain available in Review evidence.

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Company, security, and trust

Ownership, policies, security signals, and public trust evidence.

SignalFindingSource
Company and ownershipYou pay for requests made against your S3 buckets and objects. S3 request costs are based on the request type, and are charged on the quantity of requests as listed in the table below. When you use the Amazon S3 consolesource
Contact and supportWhat if your CX team could anticipate a customer's needs and resolve them before they even pick up the phone? Agentic AI makes it possible - and with agentic CX designer, business users can build those experiences themsesource
Legal and privacyYes. Amazon Connect Customer keeps data, models, and conversation logic within one AWS trust boundary. HIPAA eligible, with support for PCI DSS, FedRAMP, SOC, ISO 27001, and GDPR. All data encrypted at rest and in transisource
Security and complianceYes. Amazon Connect Customer keeps data, models, and conversation logic within one AWS trust boundary. HIPAA eligible, with support for PCI DSS, FedRAMP, SOC, ISO 27001, and GDPR. All data encrypted at rest and in transisource
Uptime and status pageNot published on the collected pages.—
Domain registered1994-11-01—
Domain expires2027-10-31—

Not found on the collected pages: uptime and status page. This only means Scout did not find it on the pages it read; it says nothing about the company itself.

18

Documentation and product updates

Help resources, product guidance, and visible changes over time.

Resource or updateTypeWhat is availableDate or freshness
Amazon EKS PricingSupportPublic contact and support channel. (source)Not dated

Not found in the collected public sources: public roadmap, changelog or release notes, status page, separate help center or knowledge base.

Technical

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Technical and delivery signals

Delivery model, platforms, API, data ownership, reliability claims and release activity.

SignalFindingSource
Delivery model (cloud, self-hosted, desktop, browser extension)Managed Kubernetes service on AWS cloud S119.S119
Platforms and appsRuns across cloud, on-premises, and edge locations S86.S86
API and extensibility (API, SDK, webhooks, MCP, plugins)Not published on the collected pages.—
Data ownership and exportNot published on the collected pages.—
Performance and reliability claimsLeverages AWS global infrastructure for reliability S86.S86
Release activityNot published on the collected pages.—
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Measured infrastructure

Domain, certificate, and hosting signals, measured directly.

SignalFinding
First archived2008-08-19 — web archive
TLS certificateAmazon, valid, expires 2027-03-04
Security headersHSTS, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options
Headers not servedCSP, Referrer-Policy
Server headerServer
Nameserversns-1860.awsdns-40.co.uk, ns-905.awsdns-49.net

Not measurable: rdap: HTTP 404; rdap: exceeded the overall budget; wayback: exceeded the overall budget; tls: exceeded the overall budget; dns: exceeded the overall budget; headers: exceeded the overall budget. A gap here means the lookup was unavailable, not that the finding is negative.

21

Technical site audit

A bounded multi-page crawl with page-level issues and URLs.

Scout — Bounded technical crawl

  • Pages crawled: 15 of 15 maximum
  • Technical health: 99/100
  • Critical issues: 0
  • Warnings: 2
  • Notices: 5

Issues

SeverityIssueValueAffected URL
warningTitle length should be reviewed67https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/
warningTitle length should be reviewed82https://aws.amazon.com/events/reinvent/
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed195https://aws.amazon.com/events/reinvent/
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed211https://aws.amazon.com/data/resources/data-foundation-for-agentic-ai/
noticePage is marked noindex—https://aws.amazon.com/resources/analyst-reports/gartner/global-mq-ardm-26-magic-quadrant-for-strategic-cloud-platform-services/
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed177https://aws.amazon.com/what-is-aws/
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed212https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/

Crawled pages

StatusTitleH1sWordsResponseURL
200Cloud Computing Services - Amazon Web Services (AWS)1146482 mshttps://aws.amazon.com/
200AWS Support and Customer Service Contact Info \Amazon Web Services1113639 ms
200AWS Marketplace: Homepage11660508 mshttps://aws.amazon.com/marketplace
200AWS re:Invent 2026 \The Premier Cloud and AI Conference \Nov 30-Dec 4, Las Vegas11371
200Build & Ship AI Agents: From Pilot to Production – AWS1189165 mshttps://aws.amazon.com/ai/build-ai-agents/
200Get started fast with AWS \Free account and spending controls1207173 ms
200Building a Data Foundation for Agentic AI \AWS Guide1484293 ms
200Gartner \Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services1126240 ms
200AI Solutions for Small and Medium Businesses - AWS1190484 mshttps://aws.amazon.com/smart-business/solutions/artificial-intelligence-small-medium-business/
200What’s New at AWS – Cloud Innovation & News188048 mshttps://aws.amazon.com/new/
200AWS Blogs - Cloud news & innovation \Amazon Web Services (AWS)192738 ms
200Why Choose AWS? The World's Leading Cloud \Amazon Web Services1153853 ms
200Getting Started - Cloud Computing Tutorials for Building on AWS1128059 mshttps://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/
200Cloud Security – Amazon Web Services (AWS)1152543 mshttps://aws.amazon.com/security/
200Cloud Compliance - Amazon Web Services (AWS)1136057 mshttps://aws.amazon.com/compliance/

This is a bounded Scout crawl. Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores are not claimed unless a dedicated performance audit is connected.

22

Search Console and Analytics

First-party search and behavioral data connection state.

Modeled acquisition channels

ChannelEstimated share
direct47.6%
search21.1%
search organic16.2%
search paid4.9%
social4.1%
social organic3.8%
social paid0.2%
referrals19.6%
paid referrals3.3%
mail2.8%
gen ai1.5%
affiliate0.0%
other0.0%

First-party connections

IntegrationStatusData available after connection
Google Search ConsoleNot connectedClicks, impressions, CTR, average position, queries, pages, countries, and devices
Google AnalyticsNot connectedOrganic sessions, engagement, landing pages, conversions, geography, and devices

No first-party Search Console or Analytics numbers are shown until the site owner authorizes the corresponding Google account. Scout traffic model values above are modeled estimates, not private analytics totals.

Limits and method

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Limitations and open questions

Known constraints and missing evidence from the collected pages.

The collected pages do not mention any competitor products. Evidence gaps include lack of detailed API documentation, data export options, and specific performance metrics beyond general reliability claims. Open questions remain about support for specific Kubernetes versions and migration tooling.

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Sources, method, and limitations

Evidence inventory, collection method, provider use, and constraints.

This report is based on 15 collected pages from aws.amazon.com, including the EKS product page, pricing page, and related AWS pages. The evidence catalog includes product descriptions, pricing tables, and customer case studies. External proof search was used but did not verify additional details. Limitations include reliance on marketing materials and lack of independent reviews.

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