Fully Managed Kubernetes Service
Ongoing operation, monitoring & maintenance from $4,999/month
Give your existing clusters an ongoing operational owner. Agree maintenance, release support, monitoring, incident handling and the staffed coverage your team needs before onboarding.
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An ongoing operating agreement
A setup project ends with acceptance and handover. Managed Kubernetes continues with a named operating owner, a maintenance backlog and a review cadence. Onboarding establishes the baseline and identifies remediation before recurring work begins.
What we own in scope
Monitor agreed cluster and workload signals, triage incidents during contracted coverage, maintain selected cluster components and deployment configuration, plan version changes, and keep runbooks and access records current. Record the clusters, namespaces and components covered.
What your team owns
Your team owns its cloud accounts, application code, data and business priorities. Name an application contact and an approver for production changes. We agree who owns images, databases, backups, DNS and certificates so dependencies do not fall between teams.
What needs separate scope
New platforms, large migrations, application rewrites, additional clusters and data-recovery projects are assessed separately. Cloud charges, software licenses, compliance certification and penetration testing are not included by implication. Staffed 24/7 response requires an agreed rota and confirmed availability.
From onboarding to recurring review
- Inventory versions, workloads, identities, dependencies, backups and alert destinations. Record risks and required remediation.
- Agree the responsibility matrix, support timezone and hours, escalation contacts, response targets, maintenance windows and concurrent change capacity.
- Review the maintenance backlog, plan compatible control-plane, node and add-on changes, and rehearse relevant application and recovery checks.
- Report completed changes, incident follow-ups, capacity and cost observations, restore evidence where scoped, and the next maintenance decisions at the agreed cadence.
A cloud-managed control plane still leaves workload and other maintenance responsibilities to assign. Use the EKS upgrade responsibility guidance and our EKS upgrade planning guide to structure that discussion. An application rollback rehearsal does not validate every cluster-version recovery path.
At the end of an engagement, hand back current configuration, access inventory, runbooks and outstanding risks to your nominated owner. Revoke temporary access through your process. See the reproducible deployment acceptance example for one bounded check that a handover can include.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
Recurring work for your Kubernetes environment
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Cost Overruns
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SERVICE TIERS
Choose Your Level of Support
From essential management to enterprise-grade solutions
Bronze
Essential managed Kubernetes
Gold
Enterprise managed Kubernetes
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Support that fits your team's timezone
Submit requests anytime. Agree delivery capacity and staffed support before your plan starts, so everyone knows who owns the next step.
Request capacity and delivery
Managed Kubernetes uses its own cluster scope: Bronze up to 3 clusters, Silver up to 10, and Gold an agreed fleet size. Maintenance windows, concurrent changes and delivery estimates are agreed before onboarding; these are separate from the Startup and Business request queues.
Cluster upgrades and migrations have scoped milestones and rollback plans. The general small-request turnaround is not a promise to finish every cluster change in 48 hours.
24/7 requests, agreed support hours
We work with teams in any timezone and accept requests 24/7. Before service starts, we agree the staffed support window, timezone, communication channel and escalation contacts. Out-of-hours human response, including a staffed 24/7 rota, requires a separately agreed scope and confirmed availability.
Incident response and resolution
Before onboarding, we agree incident priorities, escalation contacts and the staffed coverage window. A production outage is urgent; degraded service and routine changes have different priorities. Any response target covers acknowledgement and triage during the agreed coverage, not a guaranteed resolution time. Automated monitoring can run continuously; human on-call response is only included when explicitly scoped and staffed.
Your onboarding scope records support hours, priority definitions, escalation contacts, any response targets, maintenance responsibilities and exclusions. Cloud-provider outages and third-party dependencies can affect recovery time.