This article explains how Tigera's Calico Cloud protects Amazon EKS workloads from network-based threats and malicious activity.

• Calico Cloud provides runtime threat defense using eBPF-based probes for network and process monitoring
• Global alerts detect lateral movement, botnets, malicious DNS queries, and cloud metadata API attacks
• Workload-centric IDS/IPS with AlienVault threat feeds identifies and blocks malicious traffic
• Deep packet inspection using Snort IDS monitors containers for suspicious network activity
• Honeypods detect data exfiltration, privilege escalation, and denial-of-service attacks
• Workload-based WAF enforces security controls on east-west traffic using ModSecurity
• Unified multi-cloud security framework with centralized policy management across environments
• Dashboard provides real-time visibility of workload communication and security policy status

Calico Cloud delivers comprehensive, active security for EKS by combining network-based threat detection with workload-level protection and compliance reporting.