EKS gives you a Kubernetes control plane on AWS. Stakater Cloud gives you managed OpenShift plus the entire platform layer — GitOps, CI/CD, secrets, observability, multi-tenancy — pre-wired and hosted in the EU.
EKS is Amazon's managed Kubernetes service. It provisions and patches your Kubernetes control plane on AWS — but GitOps, CI/CD, secrets management, observability, multi-tenancy, and security hardening remain your team's responsibility.
EKS gives you raw Kubernetes. Going from EKS to a production-grade platform takes 6–18 months of engineering. Stakater Cloud ships ArgoCD, Tekton, OpenBao, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, multi-tenancy, and more — production-ready on day one.
OpenShift ships with stronger security defaults, a developer console, integrated image registry, and enterprise support from Red Hat. EKS gives you plain upstream Kubernetes — every enterprise feature is an add-on your team must wire.
EKS ties your data to AWS and your bill to AWS pricing. Stakater Cloud is operated by a Swedish company, with default EU deployment in Amsterdam and GDPR/DORA/NIS2 aligned operations under one flat monthly fee.
The real alternative isn't switching cloud providers — it's spending 12–18 months building this yourself with an internal platform team.
A real migration plan, run alongside your team. No two-week sales pitch dressed up as discovery.
We scope your existing EKS setup — clusters, workloads, data volumes, integrations, compliance posture. Honest assessment of what moves cleanly and what needs care.
Your dedicated OpenShift cluster is provisioned in under 15 minutes, EU-hosted, with the full platform layer pre-wired — GitOps, CI/CD, observability, secrets, multi-tenancy.
Stakater SRE runs the migration alongside your team. Containerised workloads move first; data, integrations, and DNS cutover are scheduled around your risk tolerance.
No. EKS is managed Kubernetes on AWS. OpenShift is an enterprise application platform built on Kubernetes — security hardening, developer console, integrated image registry, stricter RBAC defaults, enterprise support.
A GitOps tool (ArgoCD), CI/CD (Tekton), secrets management (OpenBao), full observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki), multi-tenancy, network policies, image scanning (RHACS), backup (Velero), certificate management. Stakater Cloud includes all of this managed.
EKS runs on AWS — a US company subject to the US CLOUD Act. For European regulated industries, this creates data sovereignty concerns. Stakater Cloud provides default EU deployment, Swedish operation, and ISO 27001:2022 certification.
EKS cluster creation takes minutes. Building a production-grade platform on top realistically takes 3–9 months. Stakater Cloud is production-ready in under 15 minutes.
In practice, yes — typically 2–4 platform engineers. Stakater Cloud is your platform team, included.
Book a 30-minute call. We'll show you exactly how Stakater Cloud stacks up against EKS for your specific workload — no sales pitch, just an honest conversation.