aws/aws-eks-best-practices

A best practices guide for day 2 operations, including operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.

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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Best Practices

A best practices guide for day 2 operations, including operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.

This guide is now published to the official Amazon EKS Docs platform. While this repo continues to be the source, the GitHub.io page will be phased out.

See latest/bpg for the new AsciiDoc formatted files. Contribution guidelines coming soon!

Contributing

While the best practices were originally authored by AWS employees, we encourage and welcome contributions from the Kubernetes user community. If you have a best practice that you would like to share, please review the Contributing Guidelines before submitting a PR.

License Summary

The documentation is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. See the LICENSE file.

The sample code within this documentation is made available under the MIT-0 license. See the LICENSE-SAMPLECODE file.

aws/aws-eks-best-practices

A best practices guide for day 2 operations, including operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.

Python

2,164

1,920 commits

updated Oct 1, 2026

See the code

README

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Best Practices

A best practices guide for day 2 operations, including operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.

This guide is now published to the official Amazon EKS Docs platform. While this repo continues to be the source, the GitHub.io page will be phased out.

See latest/bpg for the new AsciiDoc formatted files. Contribution guidelines coming soon!

Contributing

While the best practices were originally authored by AWS employees, we encourage and welcome contributions from the Kubernetes user community. If you have a best practice that you would like to share, please review the Contributing Guidelines before submitting a PR.

License Summary

The documentation is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. See the LICENSE file.

The sample code within this documentation is made available under the MIT-0 license. See the LICENSE-SAMPLECODE file.

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