Fairwinds Blog

Managed Kubernetes

6 minute read

| March 26, 2026

Kubernetes Upgrades Are Eating Engineering Time: How to Get It Back

Kubernetes powers your products, but it quietly hijacks your engineering organization. Every year, you pay senior engineers to wrestle with version bumps, API deprecations,... Read More

General

10 minute read

| March 10, 2026

How MSPs Bridge the Gap Between Cloud Potential and Day‑to‑Day Reality

Managed service providers (MSPs) bridge the gap between what the cloud makes possible and what most organizations can realistically run, secure, and scale with their current... Read More

Managed Kubernetes

6 minute read

| February 26, 2026

How to Move from Clusters that Mostly Work to Production‑Ready EKS

Kubernetes on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is powerful, but it is not simple. Many teams I talk to are stuck somewhere between “we are only 2 versions behind” and... Read More

Cost

7 minute read

| January 29, 2026

Why Your Over‑Provisioned Kubernetes Clusters Just Got More Expensive

Cloud GPU prices just jumped, and every over‑provisioned Kubernetes cluster is now a compounding cost to your budget. If you’re still guessing at requests and limits, this... Read More

Cost

11 minute read

| January 15, 2026

The Cost of EKS Auto + Capabilities vs Fairwinds Managed KaaS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has shifted more of the infrastructure burden from the customer to the service by automating Kubernetes management with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes... Read More

Managed Kubernetes

8 minute read

| January 14, 2026

How to Keep Kubernetes Infrastructure Running When You Lost Your SRE

Losing a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) can be a serious challenge for organizations relying on Kubernetes. SREs are crucial for maintaining the reliability and performance... Read More

Featured

15 minute read

| December 29, 2025

2026 Kubernetes Playbook: AI at Scale, Self‑Healing Clusters, & Growth

In 2026, the question isn’t whether Kubernetes wins – it already has. And yet, many organizations are running mission-critical workloads on a platform they still treat as... Read More

Best Practices

40 minute read

| December 10, 2025

A Step-by-Step Guide to Securely Upgrading Your EKS Clusters

As an agile open source project, Kubernetes continues to evolve, as does the cloud computing landscape. Keeping up with the latest versions isn’t practical for many... Read More

Managed Kubernetes

8 minute read

| October 29, 2025

Planning Your 2026 Budget for Managed Services: Approval Strategies That Work

As 2025 draws to a close, IT and business leaders face a shrinking window to proactively secure managed services budget approval for 2026. In a year shaped by volatility,... Read More

Open Source

12 minute read

| October 23, 2025

The Benefits of Using an Open Source IDP Design On AWS

Platform engineering teams face an important choice: implement an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) using proprietary SaaS or assemble one grounded in open source. While... Read More

General

7 minute read

| October 2, 2025

5 Ways Kubernetes Enables a Seamless Omnichannel Shopping Experience

Retailers today are rushing to deliver truly seamless omnichannel experiences, where it doesn’t matter if a customer is shopping in-store, online, or from a mobile app. Why?... Read More

General

9 minute read

| September 24, 2025

How to Ensure Your IDP Gets Launched: A Guide to Platform Success

Most organizations launching an internal developer platform (IDP) initiative want transformation: faster releases, happier devs, and tighter governance. Still, too many... Read More