24 engineers on Hacker News describe using Amazon EKS first-hand: 3 endorse it, 2 regret it, 3 are mixed.
“EKS requires you to manually perform all the steps AKS does for you, but it's still reasonably easy”
mixed · production · b7we5b7a · 2023-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Feature request for EKS - ok talk to the Product Manager this afternoon.”
endorse · production · sparc24 · 2023-10-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our k8s cluster was on EKS and it worked out very well.”
endorse · production · fhaldridge7 · 2023-09-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It is just not possible given the limitations of the managed Kubernetes services.”
regret · production · jlandgraf · 2022-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“By far the most complex pieces for us are the integration points with AWS (we're using EKS.) The examples/docs available are just not that great.”
mixed · production · 1 yr · vlunkr · 2022-08-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we've had an excellent experience building a database-as-a-service on top of it. We run well over 100 clusters and are growing rapidly.”
endorse · production · hodgesrm · 2022-07-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“EKS continues to be painful. It has gotten better over the years, but it is a chore compared to GKE.”
regret · production · jrockway · 2021-07-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“EKS is still young and they are yet to figure a lot of things out... I have been working with it a lot”
mixed · production · willejs · 2018-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“AWS gamelift requires me to spin up VMs, same with AWS EKS”
neutral · personal · sovietmudkipz · 2025-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been consulting on EKS/GKE cost optimization for a few mid-sized companies and kept seeing the same pattern”
neutral · production · rvz · 2025-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been consulting on EKS/GKE cost optimization for a few mid-sized companies and kept seeing the same pattern”
neutral · production · wozzio · 2025-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We are moving our EKS workload over to ECS over the next year.”
neutral · production · therealfiona · 2024-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We are on a mix of AWS EC2 and EKS now, all autoscaled per region (we run 20+ of them).”
neutral · production · tnolet · 2024-06-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We moved to running Clickhouse on EKS with EBS volumes for storage.”
neutral · production · ianburrell · 2024-02-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have used a number of orchestrator platforms in production, including AWS ECS (Docker + custom orchestration), EKS (Kubernetes)”
neutral · production · ekidd · 2023-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use now use Bottlerocket since we're on EKS, but it's even more locked down”
neutral · production · mdaniel · 2022-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've got an IPv6 only EKS cluster that has IPv4 on the local instance that NAT's any IPv4 outgoing connections”
neutral · production · ArchOversight · 2022-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We made the switch in our EKS and vanilla k8s clusters in 2021.”
neutral · production · ryanjkirk · 2022-03-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run notebooks on the Kubernetes clusters (AWS' EKS, GCP's GKE, Azure's AKS, or DigitalOcean) of the users”
neutral · production · Jugurtha · 2021-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it took our org a solid year of work from 3 dedicated engineering teams to be comfortably deploying on GKE & EKS.”
neutral · production · busterarm · 2021-11-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“supporting proxies and other services on AWS EKS K8S that we migrated from Heroku using Porter”
neutral · production · jedwhite · 2021-06-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We now have a fully reproducible base EKS cluster deploy done with working cert-manager/letsencrypt, nginx ingress”
neutral · production · tthayer · 2020-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've migrated from Heroku to EKS using Terraform to set it up.”
neutral · production · dtech · 2020-06-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?