EKS Guide

This guide provides an introduction to Amazon EKS. This page curates a list of resources including both AWS and community created content.

📚 Amazon EKS Technical Documentation

Amazon EKS Best Practices - The EKS Best Practices Guides. The primary goal of this project is to offer a set of best practices for day 2 operations for Amazon EKS.
Choosing the right GitOps tool for your Amazon EKS cluster - This guide explores the key considerations in selecting GitOps tools for Amazon EKS, compares frequently used options, and provides insights to help you make an informed decision
Scaling Amazon EKS infrastructure to optimize compute, workloads, and network performance - This guide is designed to help organizations to optimize their Amazon EKS infrastructure across Compute Scaling, Workload Scaling, Network Scaling and Cost Optimisation.
Best practices for streamlining Amazon EKS observability - This guide is designed to help organizations optimize their Amazon EKS observability.

Amazon EKS Workshop - Practical exercises to learn about Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service.
Self Hosted EKS Workshops - This takes you to the current set of workshops created by teams at AWS on various different aspects of Amazon EKS

AWS re:Invent 2025 - Simplify your Kubernetes journey with Amazon EKS Capabilities - Learn how you can leverage Amazon EKS to more easily meet foundational needs, with AWS doing the heavy lifting so that you can focus on building and shipping software, rather than managing and scaling platforms
AWS re:Invent 2025 - The future of Kubernetes on AWS - Join Amazon EKS product leadership to learn about the latest innovations and strategies for building Kubernetes platforms and applications faster. Discover how various organizations use Amazon EKS to run their most demanding applications in the cloud, on premises, and at the edge.
AWS re:Invent 2025 - Amazon EKS Auto Mode: Evolving Kubernetes ops to enable innovation - Learn how Amazon EKS Auto Mode enables teams to focus on innovation rather than cluster infrastructure management.
AWS re:Invent 2025 - Under the hood: Architecting Amazon EKS for scale and performance - Understand the engineering principles and design decisions that drive Amazon EKS's evolution to support massive scale while maintaining simplicity and reliability.

Amazon EKS MCP Server - This guide walks you through the steps to setup and use the EKS MCP Server with your AI code assistants. You’ll learn how to configure your environment, connect to the server, and start managing your EKS clusters through natural language interactions.
EKS Node Viewer - A tool for visualizing dynamic node usage within a cluster. It was originally developed as an internal tool at AWS for demonstrating consolidation with Karpenter. It displays the scheduled pod resource requests vs the allocatable capacity on the node. It does not look at the actual pod resource usage.