The Cost of EKS Auto + Capabilities vs Fairwinds Managed KaaS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has shifted more of the infrastructure burden from the customer to the service by automating Kubernetes management with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Auto Mode and EKS Capabilities. These features automate much of the cluster infrastructure (provisioning, scaling, networking, and storage) on top of the core EKS control plane. What they don’t do is own your Kubernetes platform end”‘to”‘end: architecture, add”‘ons, upgrades, and 24×7 incident response are still your team’s responsibility.

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