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Most likely yes. They've seen the writing on the wall, that K8s has won. It will probably just be a slow deprecation like they did with Simple DB.

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It wasn't a particularly friendly service for developers, anyway.

Isn't ECS the AWS optimized version and EKS the more basic stuff?

No, ECS is a homegrown container orchestration service that has no relationship with Kubernetes.

EKS is the optimized-for-AWS version of Kubernetes.

There’s also AWS Fargate, which is a more managed version of ECS.

There were public presentations where Fargate would have an EKS deployment option.

(Disclaimer: I work for Amazon, but don't have inside knowledge of the AWS Containers Organization's plans.)

ECS was specifically created to work good with AWS.

How can EKS be better for AWS customers?

Because the open source kubernetes components have thousands of developers contributing to the code, as well a whole ecosystem of components built to kubernetes’ api.

ECS is their entirely custom container orchestrator. EKS is just hosted Kubernetes with AWS integrations.

Yes. ECS is better integrated into AWS.

EKS is just what everyone uses plugged into AWS.

Can't understand how this should be better.

Try both, you'll understand.

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