# Kubernetes Auto-Discovery for Amazon EKS

This guide shows you how to configure Teleport to automatically enroll EKS clusters in your Teleport cluster.

## How it works

The Teleport Discovery Service queries the AWS API for EKS clusters that match configured regions and tags, and creates a `kube_cluster` resource in Teleport for each matching cluster. The Teleport Kubernetes Service watches those resources and forwards user traffic to the underlying EKS clusters.

## Choosing manual or Terraform EKS auto-discovery configuration

In the manual EKS auto-discovery configuration process, you create the required IAM policies, EKS cluster access, and Teleport configuration yourself.

In the Terraform process, the [teleport-discovery-aws](https://goteleport.com/docs/ver/19.x/reference/infrastructure-as-code/terraform-modules/teleport-discovery-aws.md) module creates the AWS and Teleport resources for you.

## Guides

- [Manual EKS Auto-Discovery Configuration](https://goteleport.com/docs/ver/19.x/enroll-resources/auto-discovery/kubernetes/eks-discovery/eks-discovery-manual.md)
- [Terraform EKS Auto-Discovery Configuration](https://goteleport.com/docs/ver/19.x/enroll-resources/auto-discovery/kubernetes/eks-discovery/eks-discovery-terraform.md)