Amazon EKS
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
1warn against
Dec 4, 2025first mention
Jun 3, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“It's what I use for my todo list app, and it works great!”
“you gain tooling that is imho much easier to work with than IaC.”
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“EKS, which by the way has been working very good for me”
devops/cloud engineer from sysadmin backgroundon “I Am Building a Cloud”
Caveats and dissent
“I think everyone going to EKS before they need to is dumb.”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- I Am Building a Cloud 2 mentions
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026) 1 mention
- Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (May 2026) 1 mention
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026) 1 mention
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- Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s 1 mention
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All comments 7
“Engineered GitHub Actions pipelines to deploy Dockerized apps to AWS EKS clusters”
“running vLLM on a k8s cluster (EKS)”
“Technologies: AWS, EKS, GitHub Actions, crossplane, Terraform, Azure DevOps, EC2”
“It's what I use for my todo list app, and it works great!”
“you gain tooling that is imho much easier to work with than IaC.”
“EKS, which by the way has been working very good for me”
“I think everyone going to EKS before they need to is dumb.”