Amazon EKS
To plan an Amazon EKS deployment, use the sizing and infrastructure baseline in the AWS deployment guide, so that the numbers you plan against and the steps you follow stay in one place:
That page covers the EKS cluster configuration, node groups, RDS for SQL Server, Amazon MSK, ElastiCache for Valkey, the MongoDB constraint, and a ballpark monthly cost breakdown.
At a glance
The following table lists the baseline for each Amazon EKS item:
| Item | Baseline |
|---|---|
| Kubernetes | Amazon EKS, managed node groups |
| SQL | Amazon RDS for SQL Server (identity, operational, and reporting) |
| Kafka | Amazon MSK (3 brokers with SASL/SCRAM in the baseline), or Kafka in the cluster from the deployment package |
| Cache | Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey |
| MongoDB | MongoDB Atlas or in-cluster. AWS DocumentDB is not supported |
For the deployment steps themselves, start at Environment setup.
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