Eureka is a REST (Representational State Transfer) based service that is primarily used in the AWS cloud for locating services for the purpose of load balancing and failover of middle-tier servers.
Eureka is a tool in the API Tools category of a tech stack.
What are some alternatives to Eureka?
Consul is a tool for service discovery and configuration. Consul is distributed, highly available, and extremely scalable.
A centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services. All of these kinds of services are used in some form or another by distributed applications.
etcd is a distributed key value store that provides a reliable way to store data across a cluster of machines. It’s open-source and available on GitHub. etcd gracefully handles master elections during network partitions and will tolerate machine failure, including the master.
The main goal of this project is to provide simple and robust facilities for loadbalancing and high-availability to Linux system and Linux based infrastructures.
Amazon EC2, Titus, Spring Cloud are some of the popular tools that integrate with Eureka. Here's a list of all 3 tools that integrate with Eureka.