Fairwinds: Your Amazon EKS Managed Service Provider

Run Amazon EKS in production without carrying the operational burden. People-led, white-glove EKS managed service built for security, reliability, and AI-ready scale on AWS.

Why Teams Choose Fairwinds for Amazon EKS

Fairwinds is a Kubernetes Certified Service Provider and AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with a strategic focus on being a leading Amazon EKS managed service provider for mission‑critical applications. With the AWS EKS Delivery designation and a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with AWS. This is a formal, multi-year investment from AWS that recognizes Fairwinds as a premier partner for EKS modernization and validates our deep expertise in architecting, building, and operating EKS environments in production.

With Fairwinds, you get a production-grade EKS platform without having to design, operate, secure, and continuously fix it yourselves. We bridge the gap between default AWS and production-ready infrastructure, accelerating your speed to market by eliminating the months of trial and error often associated with Kubernetes adoption.

Customers work with a team validated by AWS and the Kubernetes community to run EKS for mission-critical workloads every day.

What Makes Fairwinds Different on AWS

EKS‑first
Managed Services

People‑led, white‑glove EKS managed services that go beyond the control plane to include add‑ons, upgrades, security, and day‑2 operations across your clusters.

EKS Adoption & Modernization

Helping businesses move from legacy platforms or self‑managed Kubernetes to EKS and cloud‑native architectures with proven blueprints and managed operations.

Cloud‑native and DevOps innovation

Opinionated patterns, GitOps workflows, and platform tooling refined across many environments to accelerate EKS adoption and improve reliability and cost-efficiency.

AI/ML‑ready
Infrastructure

Optimized for AI/ML workloads, including GPU‑enabled nodes, cost‑aware scheduling, and robust observability and visibility into cluster and workload health.

Multi‑cloud Expertise, AWS‑focused

Support operation across multiple clouds due to acquisitions, regulatory or data‑residency requirements, or architectural choices, anchored on AWS and Amazon EKS.

AWS Managed Services Offerings

Fairwinds delivers a full lifecycle AWS managed services practice centered on Amazon EKS, integrating with the broader AWS platform for networking, security, observability, and data services.

Design & Architecture on AWS

EKS cluster and landing zone design aligned to VPC, IAM, and organizational security requirements and integrating Amazon EKS with core AWS services: Amazon EC2, Amazon VPC, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon CloudWatch, and AWS IAM.

Multi‑cluster and multi‑region patterns for highly available, regulated, or globally distributed workloads.

Build, Migration & Modernization

Greenfield Amazon EKS deployments and brownfield migrations from on‑prem or self‑managed Kubernetes.

Modernization of legacy workloads onto containerized, cloud‑native architectures on AWS.

Managed Kubernetes Operations

24/7 monitoring, SRE‑driven operations, SLO management, and incident response for EKS clusters and supporting AWS services.

Regular Kubernetes, node group, and add‑on upgrades, backups, and capacity planning.

Security, Compliance & Governance

Hardened baselines for EKS, IAM, and network security, plus policy‑as‑code guardrails.

Architectures designed to support frameworks like SOC 2, HIPAA, and industry‑specific standards.

Cost Optimization on AWS

Right‑sizing, autoscaling strategies, and optimization of node groups, including Spot and Graviton adoption where appropriate.

Continuous visibility into Kubernetes and AWS spend with recommendations for ongoing savings.

Use Cases on AWS

Organizations choose Fairwinds to accelerate their AWS and Kubernetes journey with a certified, AWS-aligned partner.

AI‑ready Kubernetes Platforms on AWS

Secure, scalable Amazon EKS foundations for AI/ML workloads, including GPU‑backed node groups and high‑throughput data pipelines.

Platform Engineering & IDPs

Internal Developer Platforms on EKS that provide self‑service, GitOps‑driven workflows and golden paths for teams deploying to AWS.

Regulated and Mission‑critical Workloads

Architectures and operations tailored for financial services, healthcare, and other industries with strict reliability and compliance needs.

Standardized, Multi‑cluster Environments

Unified patterns for networking, security, and observability across multiple EKS clusters, accounts, and regions.

How Fairwinds Works with AWS

As an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with Amazon EKS Delivery and an SCA with AWS, Fairwinds aligns closely with AWS best practices, reference architectures, and service roadmaps. Customers benefit from faster adoption of new AWS capabilities and a managed service model that integrates with existing AWS accounts, tooling, and security controls.

Typical engagement phases:

Discover & assess: Evaluate current AWS and Kubernetes landscape, risks, and goals.
Design & plan: Define target EKS architecture, landing zone, and migration or build plan.
Implement & onboard: Deploy EKS, integrate AWS services, and onboard initial workloads.
Run & optimize: Provide managed services, continuous improvements, and regular reviews with your cloud, security, and platform teams.

Customer Success on AWS

Fairwinds works with organizations across industries to run mission‑critical workloads on Amazon EKS, from greenfield cloud‑native apps to modernized legacy systems.

Examples include:

Improving reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency for Kubernetes platforms migrated to Amazon EKS.
Simplifying Kubernetes operations and platform engineering for teams standardizing on AWS and EKS at scale.

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Fairwinds: Your Amazon EKS Managed Service Provider

Why Teams Choose Fairwinds for Amazon EKS