# Amazon EKS is now generally available

Amazon EKS is now available for use in production form.

Written by  
Daniel Faraday-Foster  
Jun 5, 2018

Back at re:Invent 2017, Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes was announced. Good news: it is now available for use in production form.

Amazon EKS simplifies the process of building, securing, operating, and maintaining Kubernetes clusters, and brings the benefits of container-based computing to organizations that want to focus on building applications instead of setting up a Kubernetes cluster from scratch.

Prior to Amazon EKS, a lot of work had to go into architecting a fault-tolerant way to run Kubernetes. With Amazon EKS you get a highly available, fault-tolerant, managed Kubernetes service.

You can read about creating an Amazon EKS Cluster in full on [**Jeff Barr’s blog**](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-eks-now-generally-available/), or get in touch with us below if you fancy a chat.