# Creating an EKS Service

So far in this DuploCloud AWS tutorial, you created a VPC network with configuration templates ([Infrastructure and Plan](/docs/automation-platform/overview/quick-start/step-1-infrastructure.md)), an isolated workspace ([Tenant](/docs/automation-platform/overview/quick-start/step-2-tenant.md)), and an [RDS database instance](/docs/automation-platform/overview/quick-start/step-4-create-a-rds-database.md) (optionally).

Now you need to create a DuploCloud Service on top of your Infrastructure and configure it to run and deploy your application. In this tutorial path, we'll deploy an application using Docker containers and leveraging [AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)](https://aws.amazon.com/eks/).

Alternatively, you can finish this tutorial by:

* [Creating an AWS ECS Service in DuploCloud](/docs/automation-platform/overview/quick-start/quick-start-ecs-services.md) running Docker containers
* [Creating a DuploCloud native Docker Service](/docs/automation-platform/overview/quick-start/quick-start-duplocloud-docker-services.md)

For a deeper comparison of EKS and ECS, consult[ this AWS blog](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/amazon-ecs-vs-amazon-eks-making-sense-of-aws-container-services/).

*Estimated time to complete remaining tutorial steps: 30-40 minutes*

## Deploying an AWS EKS Service in DuploCloud

For the remaining steps in this tutorial, you will:

1. Create a Host (EC2 Instance) to serve as an [AWS EKS worker node](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/eks-compute.html).
2. Create a Service and application using the premade Docker image: `duplocloud/nodejs-hello:latest.`
3. Expose the Service by creating and sharing a Load Balancer and DNS name.
4. Test the application.
5. Obtain access to the container shell and `kubectl` for debugging.

## Network Architecture and Configurations

The topology that DuploCloud creates behind the scenes resembles this low-level configuration in AWS.

<figure><img src="/files/v3CMIbGOcAcOgcBv7Xsd" alt=""><figcaption><p>AWS architecture and configuration</p></figcaption></figure>


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