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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.

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Amazon EKS
ROSA
Category

Containers, Kubernetes

Containers, Managed OpenShift

Description

Managed Kubernetes service for running containerized applications

Fully managed Red Hat OpenShift service jointly operated by Red Hat and AWS.

Best for
  • Kubernetes workloads
  • Hybrid deployments
  • Machine learning
  • Batch processing
  • Enterprise Kubernetes
  • Application modernization
  • Hybrid cloud
  • CI/CD platforms
Key features
  • Managed control plane
  • EKS Anywhere
  • Fargate support
  • Add-ons marketplace
  • Auto mode
  • Managed OpenShift
  • Joint SLA
  • AWS service integration
  • Operator Hub
  • Cluster auto scaling
Pricing model

$0.10/hr per cluster + underlying compute

Pay per cluster hour + worker node hours

Free tier

No

No

Expert take

“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”
— Aditya Ramakrishnan, AWS Product Marketing Manager 

“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.”
— Oleksii Bebych, re:Post Top Contributor [profile]

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When to use Amazon EKS or ROSA

Use Amazon EKS when:

  • Kubernetes workloads
  • Hybrid deployments
  • Machine learning
  • Batch processing

Learn more about Amazon EKS »

Use ROSA when:

  • Enterprise Kubernetes
  • Application modernization
  • Hybrid cloud
  • CI/CD platforms

Learn more about ROSA »

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