Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate Now Generally Available

I just use fargate directly (ECS I guess) - it works pretty nicely for small apps.

I was reading someone wanted EKS but the $180/month for management layer was way too much. Do people use EKS for tiny projects? It seems like a lot of complexity to carry around.

aries1980 6 years ago | |

For just to be future-proof, you can install proper K8s on a single node, then scale out. To those who knows K8s inside out, to set up such K8s for a hobby project takes about 5-10 minutes, so not a huge investment of time.

babyyoda 6 years ago |

Great to see - but amazon marketing is approaching Apple levels. Lots of talk of “only service of its kind” where things like Azure Virtual Nodes (ACI + AKS) and Google Cloud Run have been GA for months

pritambarhate 6 years ago |

> Additionally, you pay the standard cost for each EKS cluster you run, $0.20 per hour.

So AWS K8S tax still applies!

zedpm 6 years ago | |

Yeah, I was kind of expecting AWS to announce that they're dropping the EKS per-cluster charge this year, or at least lower it. I suppose that could still happen this week.

tootie 6 years ago |

Why would I choose EKS over ECS? Just for better cross-compatibility with non-Amazon platforms?

placatedmayhem 6 years ago | |

I don't regularly use AWS services, but it would seem to me that writing operational tooling (deployment descriptors and such) to the Kubernetes API allows more control over the management of your app and more portability to other cloud providers compared to ECS. On the other hand, ECS is a bit more "turnkey", doing more of the detailed control isn't required. It's worth someone with more regular usage weighing in, though.

staticassertion 6 years ago | |

Probably for two main reasons:

* Open APIs, if you care about being able to move away from AWS

* Tooling. People are likely to build a lot of tooling around Kubernetes, relative to Fargate/ECS.

That's my guess.

gravypod 6 years ago |

Does this integrate with persistent volumes to allow you to mount EBS into these? If so this is a great offering since it directly integrates with VPC, EBS, ELBs, and everything with no node overhead to worry about.

mukgupta 6 years ago | |

"Currently there is no support for stateful workloads that require persistent volumes or file systems."

gravypod 6 years ago | | |

That's unfortunate. This went from killer product to meh.

EKS currently has some issues with EBS that make it a pain that Fargate VMs would make go away

staticassertion 6 years ago | | |

Yeah, it makes it a non-starter for me.

AWS could really do more in the area of making it super easy to get a hybrid managed database.

I run a DB that AWS does not have managed support for, it would be great to have managed backups, managed patching, autoscaling, etc.

gravypod 6 years ago | | |

For me it's amazing how much more performant software can be when you can just serialize and load data from disk using something like recordio or leveldb.

paulopontesm 6 years ago |

Finally!