The situation
A product has workloads on AWS but its EKS changes rely on manual console steps.
Amazon EKS Consulting & Implementation
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service is AWS’s managed Kubernetes offering. An EKS engagement designs how the cluster, AWS services and your applications work together, including the responsibilities that remain with the operating team.
- Choose the EKS operating model
- Integrate AWS boundaries
- Make changes repeatable
Is this right for you?
When this is the right work.
You are adopting Kubernetes on AWS or need to improve the reliability, access and upgrade behavior of an existing EKS environment.
The first conversation establishes the environment, the constraint and who will accept the result. We agree a bounded starting point before expanding the engagement.
Scope
What DotConn delivers.
- 01
Choose the EKS operating model
Assess workload constraints, compute options and the level of platform control the team needs. Record why the selected model fits.
- 02
Integrate AWS boundaries
Design VPC connectivity, workload access, storage and environment separation around the application.
- 03
Make changes repeatable
Version cluster configuration, define workload deployment and rehearse upgrades and relevant restoration checks.
Deliverables
What you receive.
Acceptance criteria identify the checks, records and handover needed for the agreed scope.
- EKS architecture and responsibility record
- Cluster, identity and deployment configuration
- Upgrade, observability and handover checks
In practice
A practical example.
Our approach
We document the current dependencies, move agreed changes into versioned configuration and test the maintenance path.
The useful result
The team receives a repeatable change process and a clear split between AWS, platform and application responsibilities.
Responsibility
Agree the responsibility.
DotConn
Assesses and delivers the technical work in the agreed scope, with reviewable changes and handover. Continuing operation requires a separately defined managed-service scope.
Your team
Provides authorized access, business priorities and accountable decision-makers; approves policy choices and accepts the agreed result.
Set this boundary early
EKS features, modes, costs and version support are confirmed during scoping. DotConn does not claim an AWS partnership or an automatic application availability guarantee.
FAQ
Questions worth resolving.
Does EKS remove the need for SRE?
No. The selected EKS model changes infrastructure tasks, while service objectives, application behavior, release decisions and incident ownership still need people and an agreed operating model.
Pricing, timing and how to prepare are covered in working with DotConn.
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Services that work alongside this.
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