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AKS for Amazon EKS professionals

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This series of articles helps professionals who are familiar with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to 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 for the following Kubernetes design areas:

These articles provide recommended architectures and practices to improve AKS deployment security, compliance, management, and observability. Specifically, the Migrate EKS to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) article provides strategies for migrating typical stateless and stateful workloads. For basic AKS implementation, see Baseline architecture for an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster and AKS in an application landing zone.

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:

The following articles compare Azure and AWS core platform components and capabilities:

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