Product overview

What we manage, what your team keeps, and where the boundary sits.

The managed EKS platform covers Kubernetes setup, upgrades, guardrails, and shared services. Your team keeps the application work and the AWS account.

Responsibility boundaryClear by design

We run

Cluster baseline and add-ons

Access model and guardrails

Upgrades and platform maintenance

Runbooks and operational checks

You run

Application code and releases

Service-level objectives

Runtime behaviour and incidents

Product-specific requirements

What we manage

  • Provision and maintain a private-by-default EKS baseline in the customer AWS account.
  • Own platform lifecycle, upgrades, core add-ons, policy baselines, and access controls.
  • Run the platform with validation outputs, runbooks, and a defined operating model.

What stays with your team

  • Own the customer application, release logic, or application on-call.
  • Turn every environment into a bespoke platform engineering project.
  • Leave ownership unclear once the cluster is live.

Included baseline

More than cluster provisioning.

The starting point includes the EKS landing zone, the safety controls around it, and the shared services needed for the first workload.

01

Platform baseline

Private control plane, managed node groups, networking, and the core access model.

02

Guardrails

Policy baselines, delivery checks, and operating rules that make routine change easier to trust.

03

Shared services

Ingress, monitoring, logging, and the add-ons needed for a usable first workload path.

04

Operational evidence

Validation outputs, runbooks, and a known path for upgrades, access, and recovery.

Responsibility model

Responsibility has to be settled before go-live.

Platform lifecycle remains with us. Application runtime, release logic, and service behaviour remain with your team.

Platform team

We own the platform.

Application team

You own the application.

EKS lifecycle, nodegroups, add-ons, upgrades, access baseline
Application code, deployment logic, runtime ownership, service SLOs
Guardrails, policies, and validation artifacts
Business logic, application performance, on-call for app incidents
Runbooks and operational safety controls
Application team release decisions and tenant-specific requirements

Good fit

  • AWS teams that need Kubernetes outcomes without building a large internal platform function
  • Engineering organisations that want clearer ownership boundaries
  • Small product teams that need safer upgrades without building the whole platform function

Not a fit

  • Teams expecting unlimited bespoke platform feature work
  • Organisations that already run a mature internal platform team
  • Buyers expecting a provider to own their application operations

Next step

Start with the boundary, then decide whether a pilot makes sense.

Bring the ownership split you need and the first workloads you want to onboard. We will use the call to confirm fit before scoping delivery.