Amazon EKS is now generally available

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Amazon EKS is now generally available. Join us at 11am PST twitch.tv/aws for a discussion with the Amazon EKS team. We will be back here on Reddit answering questions starting at 12:30pm PST today with the EKS team.

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We are answering questions now on Reddit at - https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/8osr8c/amazon_eks_is_now_ga_official_discussion_thread/

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I wrote about our first impressions with EKS here https://sourcediving.com/elastic-kubernetes-service-536a9ffe9223 tldr; it’s really good and will save you a bunch of time setting up masters and etcd!!

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Tried it last week. Main comments are:

  1. We need the Ireland region.
  2. It’s recommended to create a separate VPC. What are the downsides to using an existing VPC?
  3. It took me the better part of a day to follow the getting started guide. Azure and Google can start a cluster with one click. Any plans to make it a smoother experience.
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