Running EKS yourself means owning upgrades, node lifecycle, ingress, autoscaling, and monitoring. Handing it all to a hosted PaaS means giving up the account, the data, and the spend. Convox is the third option: managed operations inside infrastructure you own.
Cluster provisioning and upgrades, node lifecycle with Karpenter autoscaling, ingress and TLS, logging, metrics, and the deploy workflow. The platform runs the cluster so your team ships applications.
The AWS account, the VPC, the data, and the bill. Your committed use discounts and credits apply, your security controls are inherited, and nothing has to be migrated if you change course.
Racks provision genuine managed Kubernetes with standard APIs. kubectl works whenever you want it. You just should not need it day to day.
EKS, GKE, and AKS hand you a cluster and stop. Convox adds the deploy pipeline, environments, secrets, RBAC, and monitoring that otherwise take a platform team to assemble.
The same workflow provisions managed Kubernetes on AWS, GCP, Azure, and DigitalOcean, so adding a second cloud is configuration rather than a rebuild.
