AWS Well-Architected EKS (Kubernetes) Cluster

Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/announcing-updates-to-the-aws-well-architected-framework-2/#:~:text=A%20brief%20history,release%20of%20the%20guidance%20whitepaper.

Since 2012, AWS architectures and engineers established the Well-Architected Framework. which is a set of standard guidelines and best practices that allow customers to improve and evaluate the design and implementation of their workloads running on AWS Cloud Infrastructure. These principles are usually applied to the global AWS Infrastructure, tools, and services within the AWS ecosystem. These services include EC2, ECS, S3, Lambda, Elasticbeanstalk, Amazon DynamoDB, RDS, and the other 200 services in the AWS Cloud environment.

The Pillars

The AWS Well-architected Framework is made up of six pillars

• Reliability Pillar
• Security Pillar
• Cost Pillar
• Performance Efficiency Pillar
• Operational Excellence Pillar
• Sustainability Pillar

This article was written by my friend Veliswa Boya, who has done a deep dive into the AWS Well-architected Framework and how the different pillars can be implemented on your Infrastructure.

In this article, I will expand on how these principles can be applied in the realm of EKS and Kubernetes. I will apply the same principles in Kubernetes and explain how your EKS cluster deployed in AWS can be…