We recently updated the NGINX Ingress Controller solution brief with sizing guidelines for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). In this blog, we explain how we came up with the guidelines, including all the information you need to do similar testing of your own.
Amir Rawdat

Amir Rawdat is a technical marketing engineer at NGINX, where he specializes in content creation of various technical topics. He has a strong background in computer networking, computer programming, troubleshooting, and content creation. Previously, Amir was a customer application engineer at Nokia.
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