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Favorable Review
Smooth AWS integration and managed control plane simplify operations
Critical Review
Flexibility and self-management stand out, but support and documentation create complications.
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likes
Integration with AWS ecosytem is the biggest advantage. IAM roles, ALB ingress controller, CloudWatch container insights, ECR for image management - all plug together natively without needing a patchwork of third-party tools. Having the control plane being fully managed with SLA backing gives us confidence we don't get from self managed clusters. Kubernetes for autoscaling has been a game changer too - its faster and smarter about right sizing nodes than the old cluster autoscaler ever was.
May 28, 2026
dislikes
The main challenge we've faced in initial deployments is that support hasn't been able to help us reduce response times, providing inaccurate and delayed answers for this product in our case. The latest updates have caused some problems in our existing deployments, and we've been able to determine that they were bugs. We've also had some issues with billing because the documentation in that regard isn't very detailed.
March 6, 2026
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