What's the Difference Between Amazon EKS and ROSA?
Compare Amazon EKS and ROSA side by side — features, pricing, and ideal use cases to help you choose the right product.
Compare side-by-side
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Comparisons
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Amazon EKS
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ROSA
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Category
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Containers, Kubernetes |
Containers, Managed OpenShift |
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Description
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Managed Kubernetes service for running containerized applications |
Fully managed Red Hat OpenShift service jointly operated by Red Hat and AWS. |
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Key features
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Pricing model
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$0.10/hr per cluster + underlying compute |
Pay per cluster hour + worker node hours |
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Free tier
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No |
No |
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Expert take
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“EKS is production-grade Kubernetes without the undifferentiated heavy lifting of operating it. From Auto Mode handling compute lifecycle to EKS Capabilities providing managed Argo CD and resource orchestration, teams get the full Kubernetes ecosystem with the reliability and scale of AWS underneath” |
“ROSA provides fully managed OpenShift with joint AWS and Red Hat support. Choose it when your enterprise is standardized on OpenShift and needs AWS-native integration.” |
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Product page
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When to use Amazon EKS or ROSA
Use Amazon EKS when:
- Kubernetes workloads
- Hybrid deployments
- Machine learning
- Batch processing
Use ROSA when:
- Enterprise Kubernetes
- Application modernization
- Hybrid cloud
- CI/CD platforms
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