AWS EKS vs Azure AKS - my thoughts and reflection after using both in Production
I am lucky enough to work both with Azure AKS, and AWS EKS(EC2), and I decided to dedicate a post on my blog about the two. I have also to admit that this is the most opinionated post I have written so far. I tried to put more emphasises on their differences than to write about their similarities. Here are the three areas I comparing them: AKS vs EKS from Cluster Management Standpoint, AKS vs EKS from Networking Standpoint, AKS vs EKS from Scalability Standpoint AKS vs EKS from Cluster Management Standpoint Both AKS and EKS mange the master node (AKA Data plane) for you completely, and there isn't much difference I notice in that area between the two. However, Azure does not charge you anything for the Master node it manage and you only pay for the worker nodes, however, EKS charge you a fix price monthly for that Master node (around USD 70 dollar depending on the region) One feature I like in EKS is called Managed Node Groups . This feature automate and off...