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CIS Hardened Image Level 1 on EKS-Optimized Amazon Linux 2

Center for Internet Security | 3.0.0.2-K8s.v1.33

Linux/Unix, Amazon Linux 2 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

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    RajeshKumar22

A competitively priced product with an easy setup phase in place

  • February 29, 2024
  • Review from a verified AWS customer

What is our primary use case?

I use the solution for its microservices. I used the product in some of my personal projects for deploying applications. From an organizational standpoint, the product is useful for its microservices.

What needs improvement?

When it comes to Amazon EKS, there are IAM permissions and RBAC. When you create an IAM user, you give the privileges on the cluster level, but there won't be anything inside the clusters. In the clusters and their respective files, you will have to map the IAM user created with the help of AWS. The documentation part of the product is an area of concern that needs to be made easier from an improvement perspective.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have experience with the tool for the past six to eight months. For some of my personal projects, I have been using the product for a year and a half. I am a customer of the product.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

How was the initial setup?

The product's initial setup phase is easy since it is only based on a one-line command to help you set up an EKS cluster.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The product is available at such a huge scale in the market since the resources that are offered under the tool are competitively priced and available at a much cheaper rate compared to other solutions.

What other advice do I have?

One of the aspects of Kubecost and Amazon EKS is that you don't have to manage the master node. The scalability and connectivity between API servers and its resources, including its scheduler and controller, are all taken care of by AWS. Not being easily able to log in to your master node makes things secure.

I found the cluster autoscaler of AWS to be very helpful. It is easier for users since the cluster autoscaler takes care of the nodes, making everything easy for me. With the cluster autoscaler, all the resources are presented to me, so I need not consider any integrations from the outside environment. The aforementioned reasons made it easy for me to set up the software and scale down the resources easily.

I recommend the product to those who plan to use it. Kubernetes is a product from Google, which offers good compatibility. Kubernetes and its compatibility with Amazon is decent enough for users, in my opinion.

I rate the overall tool a ten out of ten.


    Nikhil Sehgal

Can be used to implement and create clusters, but assigning permissions to users is difficult

  • January 11, 2024
  • Review from a verified AWS customer

What is most valuable?

Amazon EKS can be used to implement and create clusters. It is also used to deploy and secure the already configured applications. EKS is a cloud-based container management service that integrates with Kubernetes to deploy applications. It automatically manages and scales clusters of infrastructure resources on AWS with Kubernetes.

EKS eliminates the need to install, operate, or maintain a Kubernetes control plane on AWS. Amazon handles everything. We just need to know how we can make it more secure, and we can use it to deploy your applications. It scales automatically, making it one of the best services.

What needs improvement?

Assigning roles and responsibilities to interact with a created cluster as a user over a command prompt is cumbersome on AWS. Initially, we create a user to interact with a cluster. Since everyone can't use the cluster, we need to assign some permissions to that specific user. It is very cumbersome to assign permissions to users to interact with a cluster. We always get errors, and it takes many days to resolve that permission issue before the user can start interacting with the cluster.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Amazon EKS for eight years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Amazon EKS is a stable solution.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Amazon EKS is a scalable solution.

How are customer service and support?

The solution’s technical support is good.

How was the initial setup?

The solution’s initial setup is easy, but assigning permissions to users is difficult.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Amazon EKS is not a cheap solution.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Google Cloud Platform has a service similar to EKS called GKE. It's very easy to implement permissions in GKE as compared to EKS.

What other advice do I have?

Overall, I rate Amazon EKS a seven out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)


    reviewer2304354

Recommended cloud solution with easy setup

  • November 23, 2023
  • Review from a verified AWS customer

What is most valuable?

The solution is easy-to-set up. It is quick, and the main management is conveniently maintained in AWS, eliminating concerns.

What needs improvement?

I'd like improved traffic handling and additional application details within the system.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been working with the solution for three years now.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Amazon EKS is stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is scalable.

How was the initial setup?

The solution is straightforward to set up.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We are also working with VMware Tanzu.

What other advice do I have?

I would recommend the solution. Overall, I rate it a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)


    Phat Chau

Stable product with valuable monitoring features

  • November 21, 2023
  • Review from a verified AWS customer

What is our primary use case?

We use Amazon EKS as an APM tool for the environment while migrating the monolithic architecture to microservices architecture. It helps us to test product functionality in a particular environment.

What is most valuable?

We don’t have to manage a bunch of infrastructure. Additionally, enabling auto-scaling for both outgoing and node work helps us optimize the cost. It has valuable monitoring and insights features as well.

What needs improvement?

The product’s pricing needs improvement.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using Amazon EKS for more than three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is a stable product.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We have 200 Amazon EKS users in our organization. It is a scalable product.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup process takes a few minutes to complete. It requires a team of seven executives to work on the deployment.

What was our ROI?

The product generates a return on investment with the help of OpEx and CaPEx licensing models.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Amazon EKS is expensive.

What other advice do I have?

I rate Amazon EKS a nine out of ten.

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)


    Hari_Rajendiran

Though a great tool that supports autoscaling, it needs to consider improvements in its initial setup phase

  • September 28, 2023
  • Review from a verified AWS customer

What is our primary use case?

The solution can be described as a microservice, and it is also a fully containerized platform. The solution can be described as a stateless service. Amazon EKS can be a great solution for deployments since it supports autoscaling and keeps scaling as well. In my company, we only pay for the resources we use, and owing to such a concept, we use the solution in our company.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it allows developers to shift applications. The value of the solution is good when compared to tools deployed on an on-premises model.

What needs improvement?

If you compare Amazon EKS with OpenShift, the latter provides users with a solution that is fully managed through automation. Amazon EKS is not a solution that can be fully managed through automation, making it an area of concern where improvement is required. Amazon EKS should be manageable through a web portal or web interface, a feature that exists in OpenShift.

Amazon EKS should be available as a fully managed service since we use Helm chart to deploy the product in our company right now.

The initial setup phase of the product is an area where certain improvements can be made.

For how long have I used the solution?

As a consultant, I use Amazon EKS, depending on the project requirements of my company. I have used Amazon EKS within the past twelve months. I am a customer of Amazon.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability of the solution is good. I can't comment much on the stability part of the solution since there is a different team in my company that takes care of the maintenance part of the solution.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I won't be able to comment on the scalability of the solution. I haven't had any reasons to deal with the product's scalability options.

How are customer service and support?

I did not meet with any issues when trying to connect with the solution's technical support. At times, there may be some delays in response from the technical support team. I rate the technical support a seven out of ten.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Neutral

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

In the past, I was using another solution. I switched to Amazon from a different solution. Amazon's support is good. Amazon also provides a number of managed services.

How was the initial setup?

I rate the initial setup phase of the product a six on a scale of one to ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy.

The initial setup phase of the product was a bit difficult.

The solution is deployed on Jenkins and CI/CD.

What about the implementation team?

The product's initial setup phase was taken care of by one of our company's in-house teams.

What other advice do I have?

I rate the overall product a seven out of ten.


    Victor AugustoDe Souza E Silva

Helps in managing infrastructure effectively and provides good monitoring features

  • August 15, 2023
  • Review from a verified AWS customer

What is our primary use case?

We use Amazon EKS to build integration projects and manage the infrastructure.  

What is most valuable?

Amazon EKS is compatible with Kubernetes API. I can use the autoscaling feature to manage and scale up infrastructure. I can monitor the cluster as well.

What needs improvement?

I encountered problems with the product’s documentation. Additionally, the CPU consumes a lot of memory. EKS could be modular like GCP as well.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using Amazon EKS for one year.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is more straightforward if you use the console.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I rate Amazon EKS’s pricing a nine out of ten. It costs around $200 and is expensive for the Brazilian market.

What other advice do I have?

I rate Amazon EKS a nine out of ten.


    Tiezer Melo

Provides an easy way to create clusters without having to manage the control plane separately

  • August 14, 2023
  • Review from a verified AWS customer

What is our primary use case?

It's a great service because we can do a lot of things using it. It's easy to create clusters and services in pods there.

So, the main purpose is to create clusters and services and define some pods there.

How has it helped my organization?

We reduced the cost by using one cluster instead of using different services and different virtual machines in a client. So, Amazon EKS helped our organization reduce costs. 

What is most valuable?

This is the way we can create a cluster because we don't need to pay attention to the control plane. We only need to deploy the services in the worker nodes and configure some configurations, easy configurations, and the cluster is done to be published.

Basically, AWS provides all features that we have prepared.

What needs improvement?

There is room for improvement in stability. I faced some problems with the App. The problem is actually the app, with the different teams fixing it.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for 18 months. I work on different projects. Basically, we create a structure and per clients, and we move to another project. So we did different projects for how long of the year.

We are currently using version 1.24, but we are migrating to the latest version, which is 1.28.70.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I would rate the stability an eight out of ten. I faced some problems with the App. The problem is actually the app with the different teams fixing it, but I would say the Kubernetes - it's ten. The service is ten. But if everything is considered, it's eight.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I would rate the scalability a ten out of ten. It is perfect. Moreover, more than one hundred users have access per hour. 

We use this solution every day. Thus, we use the solution to its maximum potential. 

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We did the research for Azure, but all the structure and other resources were applied in AWS, so we kept it in the same provider.

We also used a local structure, but we're at a short time. And the infrastructure had already been done. I only need to support the application. It's full.

How was the initial setup?

The thing that takes more time to be constructed with the code is minutes and hours to provide the EKS code, but with the structure is really fast.

Basically, it used the code. They used the TerraForm code because we work with ESA, and, basically, the most important part for us is the code.

What about the implementation team?

We used the help of a third party, like, the partners of Amazon. 

We required four people for the deployment process. However, the maintenance depends on the number of clusters and resources. So, two people are enough for the maintenance of the solution. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I would rate the pricing model a seven out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is very expensive.

It was rather expensive; compared to GCP and Azure, it's a little more expensive. The price can be a problem for small-sized businesses. 

There are no additional costs to the standard license. 

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

So I work as a DevOps engineer. But basically, using TerraForm or other tools like that, I never worked with another provider as Google and Microsoft. So, basically, I use AWS. 

Actually, there are a lot of reports that I use every day. So we use tools related to that, like load balancers, ECRs, and EKS— so different resource things.

What other advice do I have?

It's a great service. Some services are more expensive compared to other providers. But in general, it's the best option for medium or large enterprises.

Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)


    MohamedElazzouzi

A highly scalable solution that helps manage nodes and scalability in AWS

  • August 11, 2023
  • Review from a verified AWS customer

What is most valuable?

Amazon EKS is like Kubernetes, but it helps manage our nodes and scalability in AWS.

What needs improvement?

Amazon EKS should improve its integration. Our company does not maintain the external infrastructure.

Amazon EKS should include a graphic interface. Like there is a dashboard in Kubernetes, Amazon EKS should have a graphic interface that is more fluid, more fluent and contains more information.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Amazon EKS for six months.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Amazon EKS is a very stable solution.

I rate Amazon EKS a nine out of ten for stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Amazon EKS has high scalability. The solution has 10 to 15 endpoints in our organization. The solution is used 24/7 in our organization.

I rate Amazon EKS a nine out of ten for scalability.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Before Amazon EKS, I previously used OpenShift and Kubernetes-native.

How was the initial setup?

The solution's initial setup depends on the application inside it. It's easy to have Kubernetes, but deploying other solutions with EKS is hard. It is easy to deploy Amazon EKS in general. I rate the solution an eight out of ten for the ease of its setup.

What about the implementation team?

It took us half a day to deploy Amazon EKS. The solution's deployment depends on whether you want to use the Terraform ECR infrastructure. You have to go to the panel in AWS and deploy Amazon EKS. We needed an integrator for the first time, but then we did everything ourselves for the next deployments. Only one person is required for the deployment and maintenance of the solution.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Amazon EKS is quite pricey, but the functionality it provides is worth it. The solution has no additional costs, but it depends on the number of nodes used inside it. If we have a lot of traffic, we should scale many nodes, which would cost a lot.

On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten.

What other advice do I have?

Overall, I rate Amazon EKS a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)


    reviewer2243412

The tool is a good investment but needs improvement in customer operations

  • August 10, 2023
  • Review from a verified AWS customer

What is our primary use case?

We use Amazon EKS for our proprietary solutions and applications. 

What is most valuable?

Amazon EKS is very scalable. 

What needs improvement?

Amazon EKS needs to improve customer operations and technical support. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been working with the tool for five years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The tool's stability is high. 

How are customer service and support?

We don't need technical support at the moment. 

How was the initial setup?

The tool's deployment is not complex. 

What was our ROI?

Amazon EKS is a good investment. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The tool's pricing is good. 

What other advice do I have?

I would rate Amazon EKS an eight out of ten. 


    Richard Ortiz

Provides fast and cost-effective cloud adoption with excellent scalability and portability

  • August 02, 2023
  • Review from a verified AWS customer

What is our primary use case?

The main use case is Cloud and IT applications.

How has it helped my organization?

It's a faster solution to adopt on native applications.

What needs improvement?

I would like to see a cloud setup bank management feature.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Amazon EKS for six years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I would rate the product's stability a nine out of ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I would rate the tool's scalability a nine out of ten.

What was our ROI?

There is a return on investment.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Before EKS, we evaluated AKS and CKS.

What other advice do I have?

Review the organization's strategy with your strategy, whether it is oriented to the portability of your applications. Overall, I would rate Amazon EKS a nine out of ten.