Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) API creates and manages Kubernetes clusters with AWS-managed control plane.
Native Kubernetes compatibility (use kubectl directly)
Monthly control plane fee ($0.10/hour)
POST /eks/CreateCluster to create cluster with VPC + subnets + IAM role. CreateNodegroup to add EC2 workers, or CreateFargateProfile for Fargate.
Uptime · 30-day window
GitHub activity
About this API
EKS is AWS's managed Kubernetes service — use standard K8s without managing the control plane yourself. Core difference vs. ECS: ECS is AWS's proprietary container orchestrator (simpler API, deeper AWS integration, but AWS lock-in); EKS is standard K8s (rich community ecosystem, portable to other clouds, but ops is more complex than ECS). Decision logic: long-term AWS-only + team without K8s experience → ECS. Multi-cloud / existing K8s experience / need rich K8s ecosystem (Istio, Knative, Argo) → EKS. EKS workers can be EC2 (self-managed nodes) or Fargate (serverless, billed per pod resources), and can be mixed. AWS has made EKS very stable; mainstream choice for large enterprise container platforms.
What you can build
- 1Run containerized apps requiring full K8s ecosystem
- 2Multi-cluster federation management
- 3Mixed worker types (EC2 + Fargate)
- 4GitOps workflows
Strengths & limitations
Strengths
- Native Kubernetes compatibility (use kubectl directly)
- Fully managed control plane (no self-managed etcd, scheduler)
- Deep integration with AWS networking/IAM
- Fargate worker option for serverless containers
Limitations
- Monthly control plane fee ($0.10/hour)
- More complex than ECS (steep K8s learning curve)
- AWS-specific integrations not as deep as ECS
Example request
curl https://github.com/mermade/aws2openapi/<endpoint>Getting started
POST /eks/CreateCluster to create cluster with VPC + subnets + IAM role. CreateNodegroup to add EC2 workers, or CreateFargateProfile for Fargate.
FAQ
EKS vs. ECS?+
Team K8s experience + multi-cloud potential: EKS. AWS-only + want simple: ECS. Both mature and stable.
EKS Fargate vs. EC2 worker?+
Fargate is simple (serverless) but per-pod cost is slightly higher than self-managed EC2. Use Fargate for short bursts; EC2 + Reserved Instances is cheaper for steady load.
Technical details
- Auth type
- unknown
- Pricing
- unknown
- Protocols
- REST
- SDKs
- python, javascript, go, java, csharp
- Response time
- 15 ms
- Last health check
- 5/12/2026, 7:36:33 AM
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