In the past several years, organizations of all sizes and verticals have helped to accelerate their IT development pipelines using containerized applications orchestrated by Kubernetes (K8s) and the cloud. But to achieve optimum efficiency, many of these organizations are looking to add other management services.

One of the most popular choices for managed Kubernetes is Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). But as organizations expand the adoption of Amazon EKS, the number of K8s clusters and apps can lead to significant operational challenges, including observability, upgrade management, security, and developer productivity.