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Optimizing an EKS Cluster for Price and Performance

AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) simplifies working with Kubernetes. However, there is no free lunch, and EKS bills can be surprisingly high. Take this course to learn how to reduce EKS bills, while running workloads in a variety of scenarios.

Intermediate
2h 9m
(5)

Created by Dan Tofan

Last Updated Oct 13, 2025

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Optimizing an EKS Cluster for Price and Performance

AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) simplifies working with Kubernetes. However, there is no free lunch, and EKS bills can be surprisingly high. Take this course to learn how to reduce EKS bills, while running workloads in a variety of scenarios.

Intermediate
2h 9m
(5)

Created by Dan Tofan

Last Updated Oct 13, 2025

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AWS EKS is a great service for running your containers on Kubernetes. It’s easy to use and it’s very easy to spend a lot of money. In this course, Optimizing an EKS Cluster for Price and Performance, you’ll learn how to start taking control of your EKS bills. First, you’ll grow awareness about EKS costs. Next, you’ll discover how to optimize EKS computing costs. Finally, you’ll learn how to optimize EKS costs by using Fargate, reducing storage costs, and using Arm-based instances. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge to optimize your EKS costs and performance.

Optimizing an EKS Cluster for Price and Performance
Intermediate
2h 9m
(5)
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Dan Tofan
18 courses 4.7 author rating 259 ratings

As a software engineer and lifelong learner, Dan wrote a PhD thesis and many highly-cited publications on decision making and knowledge acquisition in software architecture. Dan used Microsoft technologies for many years, but moved gradually to Python, Linux and AWS to gain different perspectives of the computing world.

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