When you start working with EKS, it's easy to get overwhelmed by the number of things you can configure. IAM, RBAC, Security Groups, Pod Identity, Network Policies, Secrets, logging, encryption, admission controllers... the list gets long very quickly. When I look at a new EKS environment from a…
Kubernetes 1.34 reaches end of life upstream on October 27, 2026 . If you run it on EKS, GKE, or AKS, that date by itself changes very little. Each provider keeps its own support clock, and each one does something different when that clock runs out. EKS upgrades your control plane without notice.…
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…
