AKS for Amazon EKS professionals

This series of articles helps professionals who are familiar with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) understand Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The series highlights key similarities and differences between these two managed Kubernetes solutions.

The articles compare AKS with Amazon EKS in the following Kubernetes design areas:

• Identity and access management
• Cluster logging and monitoring
• Secure network topologies
• Storage options
• Cost optimization and management
• Agent node and node pool management
• Cluster governance

For greenfield AKS implementations, see Baseline architecture for an AKS cluster.

AKS isn't the only way to run containers in Azure, and Amazon EKS is only one of the container options for Amazon Web Services (AWS). These articles don't compare Azure services like Azure Container Apps, Azure Container Instances, and Azure App Service with AWS services like Amazon Elastic Container Service or AWS Fargate.

For more information about other Azure services that can host containerized workloads, see the following articles:

• Choose an Azure compute service
• Choose an Azure container service
• Compare Container Apps with other Azure container options
• General architectural considerations to choose an Azure container service

Migration resources

The following resources help you plan and carry out a migration from Amazon EKS to AKS:

• Migrate from Amazon EKS to AKS: Strategies to migrate typical stateless and stateful workloads from EKS to AKS, including container image migration, Kubernetes manifest adaptation, and data migration.

• Migrate compute from AWS to Azure: A catalog of compute migration scenarios, including EKS-to-AKS scenarios. Examples of such scenarios include:

  • Migrate an AWS event-driven workload to AKS: A step-by-step scenario for migrating an EKS event-driven workload that uses KEDA and Karpenter to AKS.

  • Migrate an EKS web application to AKS: A step-by-step scenario for migrating an EKS web application with AWS WAF to AKS with Azure Web Application Firewall.

Contributors

Microsoft maintains this article. The following contributors wrote this article.

Principal authors:

• Paolo Salvatori | Principal Service Engineer
• Laura Nicolas | Senior Cloud Solution Architect

Other contributors:

• Chad Kittel | Principal Software Engineer - Azure Patterns & Practices
• Ed Price | Senior Content Program Manager
• Theano Petersen | Technical Writer

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Next steps

• Baseline architecture for an AKS cluster