Elastic Machine Pool
Reclaim 100% of your wasted EKS capacity
Elastic Machine Pool reclaims up to 100% of unused capacity, dynamically allocating resources based on utilization, with zero pod disruption and no changes required to request/limit values.
How Elastic Machine Pool works
Elastic Machine Pool automatically reclaims EKS waste by deploying its own Virtual Machines with over-provisioning and autoscaling on AWS Metal — all from within your AWS account.
Over-provisioning in EKS
- Around 2007, enterprises struggled with eliminating waste on physical servers. VMware addressed this by over-provisioning.
- Over-provisioning is a proven technology that automatically assigns more resources to virtual machines than available physical resources.
- EMP enables over-provisioning in EKS by replacing EC2 instances with Elastic VMs (EVMs) running on AWS Metal.
- EMP and EVMs run entirely within AWS and are fully compatible with EKS and other services like EBS, EFS, VPC etc
EMP scales and rebalances your workloads automatically
- EMP has built-in cluster autoscaler which dynamically manages AWS Metal instances and the EVMs.
- By monitoring EVM resource utilization, EMP automatically scales AWS Metal instances, up or down.
- EMP dynamically provisions EVMs based on Kubernetes scheduling requests.
- Labels are used to schedule pods to EVM-based node groups.
Zero pod disruption
Our Live Migration technology moves EVMs between AWS metal nodes with zero pod disruption
EMP enhances Karpenter, Kubecost and more
| Outcomes | EMP | Karpenter | CloudHealth | Cloudability | CloudZero | Kubecost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Improve resource efficiency using over-provisioning |  | |||||
| Scale workloads without pod disruption |  | |||||
| Eliminate constant Requests and Limits updates |  | |||||
| Optimize usage via bin packing |  |  | ||||
| Cost visibility |  |  |  |  |  | |
| Resource tagging |  |  |  | |||
| Cost allocation |  |  |  |  |
Achieve over 70% utilization using EMP
EMP’s unique approach reclaims EKS waste, delivering the highest utilization possible.
EMP technical demo
Watch this video for a full demonstration of EMP’s over provisioning, autoscaling, and live migration without pod disruption on AWS bare metal.
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Additional Resources
Run EKS workloads on 50% fewer nodes with Elastic Machine Pool
Understanding Elastic Machine Pool
EKS Cost Optimization Guide – steps to optimize costs with EKS
Kubernetes FinOps: Right-sizing Kubernetes workloads
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- Your current EKS infrastructure footprint, use cases, and workload characteristics.
- Your organization’s Kubernetes efficiency goals.
- Your EKS cluster CPU and memory utilization metrics.
- How EMP can be used in your environment to achieve your desired outcomes, with a deeper dive into technical considerations such as networking, storage, performance, etc.
- See the EMP product in action, including integration with EKS, cost-saving, and utilization dashboards.