Diego Pacheco Tech blog

Besides all network overhead, Istio offers very interesting trade-off for sacrificing latency and network overhead for developer productivity and stack independence. In previous posts, I blogged a lot about kubernetes , Istio, Aws, Kops , Eksctl and EKS. Today I will show how to run Istio in AWS using EKS. Keep in mind EKS don't support Alpha* Specs right now(v1,v2 or v3) so some demos from the istio best selection of slideware won't work. But is possible to have istio installed and booking app running.

EKS is the new AWS managed Service for Kubernetes launched at last Re-Invent 2018.  EKS is not available in all regions right now. EKS an option for those who don't want to use KOPS .  For this blog post, I will show how to easily set up a kubernetes cluster in AWS using EKS.  EKS has some benefits, first of all, is a managed service that you are not locked in since the API is kubernetes based so you can easily migrate to other kubernetes installation or even other kubernetes installation in other cloud vendor or on-premises.