Optimizing an EKS Cluster for Price and Performance

AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) simplifies working with Kubernetes. However, there is no free lunch, and EKS bills can be surprisingly high. Take this course to learn how to reduce EKS bills, while running workloads in a variety of scenarios.

AWS EKS is a great service for running your containers on Kubernetes. It’s easy to use and it’s very easy to spend a lot of money. In this course, Optimizing an EKS Cluster for Price and Performance, you’ll learn how to start taking control of your EKS bills. First, you’ll grow awareness about EKS costs. Next, you’ll discover how to optimize EKS computing costs. Finally, you’ll learn how to optimize EKS costs by using Fargate, reducing storage costs, and using Arm-based instances. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge to optimize your EKS costs and performance.

• Course Overview 1min
• Growing Cost Awareness 26mins
• Optimizing Computing Costs 37mins
• Running Serverless with Fargate 19mins
• Optimizing Storage Costs 21mins
• Running Diverse Workloads 22mins