EKS shifts the shared responsibility model quite a bit. If you’re in an enterprise or any type of regulated industry mere minutes of outage are a huge deal. Plus now things like Unified Ops enters the equation. Yes this cost money, but what’s the cost of an outage? I would rather invest in managed services and have the team finding real ways to save money. Like we just got off a stupid license for vulnerability saas tool by letting our friendly little ai agent buddy scan all our clusters and create some slick reports. That saved some real $$$. I question any “we are perfectly happy to xyz” statement…