Complete AWS Production Lab — EKS Microservices Architecture

📰 Dev.to · Muhammad Awais Zahid

Learn to design a complete AWS production lab with EKS microservices architecture and deploy scalable applications

intermediate Published 10 Apr 2026

Action Steps

Design an EKS microservices architecture using AWS services like IGW, ALB, and EKS Pods
Configure a public subnet for the ALB and a private subnet for EKS Pods
Deploy a sample application to EKS Pods and test its scalability
Configure security groups and network policies for the EKS cluster
Monitor and log the application using AWS services like CloudWatch and CloudTrail

Who Needs to Know This

DevOps engineers and cloud architects can benefit from this lab to design and deploy scalable microservices-based applications on AWS

Key Insight

💡 Use EKS to orchestrate containerized microservices and ALB to load balance traffic for scalable applications

Key Takeaways

Learn to design a complete AWS production lab with EKS microservices architecture and deploy scalable applications

Architecture Overview Internet → IGW → ALB (Public Subnet) → EKS Pods (Private Subnet) ...