Migrate Amazon EC2 to EKS Auto Mode using Kiro CLI and MCP servers

This article demonstrates how to automate migration of Node.js applications from Amazon EC2 to EKS Auto Mode using Kiro CLI and MCP servers, eliminating manual configuration and operational overhead.

• EKS Auto Mode handles compute provisioning, autoscaling, node lifecycle, networking, and storage automatically
• Kiro CLI and MCP servers automate containerization, Dockerfile creation, ECR image management, and Kubernetes manifest generation
• Migration includes infrastructure discovery, container image building, EKS cluster provisioning, IAM Pod Identity setup, and deployment validation
• Security shifts from instance profiles to pod-scoped IAM roles, network policies, and container image scanning
• Post-migration requires container-native observability: CloudWatch Container Insights, Fluent Bit logging, and pod-level alerting
• Operational workflows change from SSH/instance management to kubectl debugging, pod lifecycle management, and Kubernetes-native runbooks

The solution delivers significant operational gains through fully automated migration, reducing infrastructure costs and engineering overhead while maintaining deployment flexibility and control.