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Understanding AWS End of Service Life Is a Key FinOps Responsibility
AWS announced extended support prices for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), highlighting version control as a FinOps responsibility.
Platform engineering teams can leverage extended support fees as a clear metric that demonstrates the financial impact of inaction, showing a quantifiable incentive for pursuing timely upgrades, whether that is completed in-house or through a service provider. Beyond cost avoidance, upgrading to an EKS version in standard support offers significant benefits in terms of operational efficiency, compatibility with newer software in the cloud native ecosystem, and performance. Outsourcing the management of Amazon EKS services to a dedicated team of Kubernetes experts can alleviate the stresses of version control, allowing businesses to focus on their core activities, accelerate their time-to-market, and deploy applications with confidence.
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