Azure Kubernetes Service - Microsoft's managed Kubernetes platform for container orchestration. Like having a team of experts manage your container infrastructure while you focus on applications.
Microservices applications use AKS to automatically scale individual components based on demand without manual intervention.
AKS, EKS, GKE, and OKE are managed Kubernetes services. They all run Kubernetes control planes for you and integrate with their cloud’s networking, identity, logging, and load balancing. Differences are mainly in defaults, add-ons, pricing models, and how deeply they integrate with each provider’s IAM and networking.