# Operating Kubernetes at scale: a few stories from running Amazon EKS

DevFeed: [Operating Kubernetes at scale: a few stories from running Amazon EKS](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/operating-kubernetes-at-scale-a-few-stories-from-running-amazon-eks-17621.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://thenewstack.io/eks-kubernetes-etcd-scale/>)

Author: Neelendra Bhandari

Published: 2026-06-30T13:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Kubernetes Overview, News and Trends | The New Stack](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/kubernetes-overview-news-and-trends-the-new-stack.md>)

Topics: [Amazon EKS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-eks.md>), [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [Availability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/availability.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>), [Apache Spark](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/spark.md>), [AI Platform](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-platform.md>)

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## AI overview

This article describes how operating Amazon EKS at very large scale shaped approaches to Kubernetes control-plane resilience. It argues that availability problems often arise when components amplify faults, and explains how changing workload patterns--including foundation-model training, real-time inference, Apache Spark analytics, and agentic AI--create extremely rapid state transitions that challenge traditional Kubernetes operating assumptions.

## Source excerpt

Amazon EKS runs hundreds of thousands of Kubernetes clusters across more than thirty AWS regions. Operating at that scale has The post Operating Kubernetes at scale: a few stories from running Amazon EKS appeared first on The New Stack.