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Experience the difference.
AWS EKS gives you managed Kubernetes on Amazon's cloud, but you still inherit the full complexity of the Kubernetes ecosystem — plus vendor lock-in to AWS. See why teams are choosing Cycle's unified control plane over wrestling with EKS.
The orchestration trade-off.
Evaluating the balance between power, maintenance, and usability.
Simplicity
Offloads control plane setup, but still requires configuring node groups, complex IAM permissions, and VPC networking just to get a cluster running.
Customizability
Integrates deeply with the vast AWS ecosystem, allowing teams to construct highly complex, scalable, and customized cloud architectures.
Operational Burden
While AWS manages the masters, users remain fully responsible for worker node patching, CNI upgrades, and the lifecycle of cluster add-ons.
| Features & Capabilities | Cycle | AWS EKS |
|---|---|---|
Infrastructure & Compute | ||
| Bring Your Own Infrastructure (BYOI) | AWS only | |
| Automated OS / Kernel Updates | Node strategy dependent | |
| Container, VM, & Serverless Support | Containers native | |
Networking & Security | ||
| Zero-Config Encrypted Mesh Network | VPC CNI, not zero-config mesh | |
| Automated Let's Encrypt TLS | cert-manager / ACM patterns | |
| Built-in Dynamic Load Balancing & WAF | ALB + WAF integration | |
Storage & Telemetry | ||
| Seamless Stateful Volume Migration | Complex and storage-dependent | |
| Agentless Metrics, Logs & Events | CloudWatch / agents / add-ons | |
Developer Experience | ||
| Immutable Configuration (No Drift) | Kubernetes complexity remains | |
| Native Two-Way SSH / Secure Console | kubectl exec / SSM patterns | |
Want to see what Cycle can do for you?
Experience the only control plane that natively orchestrates Containers, VMs, and Functions across any provider with a fully automated networking fabric.