Amazon EKS Accelerator by Steamhaus

Building a production-grade Kubernetes environment requires navigating complex decisions regarding networking, security, and scaling logic. This manual configuration often results in operational friction and months of R&D before the first workload is deployed. The Amazon EKS Accelerator by Steamhaus bridges this gap immediately. It delivers a pre-architected, battle-hardened infrastructure foundation designed for strict operational requirements, ensuring architectural integrity and compliance are established from day one.

We eliminate the undifferentiated heavy lifting of cluster management by provisioning a comprehensive suite of production-proven components. This includes a hardened private networking topology, granular identity access management, and integrated observability stacks. The solution features a fully managed compute plane that automates node provisioning, patching, and storage integration. By handling the complexity of the underlying infrastructure lifecycle automatically, we allow engineering teams to focus purely on application value rather than debugging orchestration primitives.

Key outcomes: This accelerator provides a standardised tooling baseline to rapid-start your container initiative, unlocking benefits such as:

• Secure by Default: Deploys a private-cluster topology with strict VPC networking, CIS Benchmark compliance, and isolated data planes for granular access control.

• Automated Compute Management: Drastically reduces operational overhead by automating node creation, storage attachment, and security patching without manual intervention.

• FinOps Optimisation: Lowers total cost of ownership via intelligent bin-packing and automated instance selection that aligns resource usage strictly with workload demands.

• Day 2 Reliability: Includes established patterns for safe version upgrades and disaster recovery to ensure long-term stability.