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Try the allocation worksheet: Compare team allocations with equal or proportional sharing , keep idle capacity separate, and download the calculation. The worksheet uses your inputs and does not connect to your cluster or AWS billing. Improving Kubernetes Cost Visibility with OpenCost OpenCost gives Kubernetes teams a practical way to see allocation, idle cost, and cloud billing in one place. This guide shows how to install it and read the numbers correctly. TL;DR OpenCost is useful when you need more than a cloud bill and less than a full financial model. It turns Kubernetes telemetry, Prometheus data, and cloud pricing inputs into allocation views that help teams understand who is using what and how much of the cluster is idle or shared. The important caveat is that the numbers are only as good as the telemetry and pricing data behind them, so the right goal is trustworthy cost visibility, not magical accounting precision. Cost Visibility Is Not Cost Guessing Most Kubernetes cos...

Listen to this article AI-narrated article - 20 min 14 sec. Narration may not include the latest examples. Use the written guide for implementation details. Your browser does not support audio playback. Open the MP3 . Read the narration transcript - Open audio Building an Internal Developer Platform on EKS An internal developer platform is not just a cluster plus CI/CD. This guide shows how Backstage, GitOps, and EKS fit together as a product layer for self-service delivery. TL;DR An internal developer platform on EKS works best when you treat it as a product, not a cluster project. EKS provides the runtime substrate, but the platform is the contract layer that turns infrastructure into self-service capabilities: catalog, templates, deployment paths, health visibility, and guardrails. Backstage is useful because its catalog and software templates expose those capabilities in a developer-facing interface, while GitOps keeps the actual platform state declarative and auditable. If you ...