📄️ Myth: EKS Control Plane Performance Can’t Be Tuned
During interviews and discussions with cloud engineers, this statement comes up frequently. Many teams running EKS clusters experience throttling on the Kubernetes API server or delays in pod creation and assume there is nothing they can do — after all, AWS fully manages the control plane.
📄️ Myth: EKS Has a Fixed Maximum Pod Count per Node
I’ve seen this misconception repeatedly during ECS → EKS migrations and even in interviews.
