Podcast - Stateful Applications on AWS EKS: The EBS Bottleneck and My Shift to EFS

Stateful Applications on AWS EKS: The EBS Bottleneck and My Shift to EFS

 

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As Kubernetes adoption accelerates across organizations, deploying stateful applications on AWS EKS presents opportunities and architectural challenges. A key decision point often lies in choosing the proper persistent storage backend. In this podcast, I’ll describe the bottlenecks I encountered with Amazon EBS when scaling my stateful workloads and explain why I transitioned to Amazon EFS for a more reliable and scalable solution.


#AWS #EKS #Kubernetes #CloudNative #AmazonEFS #AmazonEBS #DevOps #CloudStorage #StatefulApps #InfrastructureAsCode #CICD #CloudEngineering

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