Introduction One of the main perks of Amazon EKS is that AWS manages the Kubernetes control plane for you. You do not have to operate components like the API server, scheduler , or controller manager yourself. The trade-off has traditionally been less control over some Kubernetes settings that you…
October 2026 | ~16 min read The $2,000/Month Creep Three months after our 71% EKS cost reduction , we watched our spend climb from $4,180/month back up to $6,200/month. Same teams, same cluster, same Karpenter configs. We'd right-size pods, and two months later the same engineers were back to…
