Case study for Amazon EKS
The case study in this section covers a customer’s journey of using Amazon EKS.
The business challenge
A business chat tool company chat4business moved to a container-based architecture a few years ago. The company’s infra team was self-managing Kubernetes on Amazon EC2. However, the administrative and operational load of performing version upgrades every three months was an overhead to the company. There were issues with the tooling at the onset of Kubernetes adoption and the operational load to manage each cluster was high. The company had been using open source tools to manage its Kubernetes clusters. The infra team had to do everything including building, managing, and operating the control plane themselves. As their systems grew in scope and complexity, the operational load increased. The company needed failover risk during deployments and wanted to automate operations wherever possible in order to avoid dependency on any particular...