Why We Migrated Away from AWS EKS Auto Mode Back to Standard Mode (And How We Did It)

DevOps Engineer with ~3 years of hands-on experience designing, automating, and operating cloud-native infrastructure on AWS and Kubernetes (EKS). I specialize in Terraform-based IaC, CI/CD automation, GitOps with ArgoCD, observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OTEL), and cloud security. I've led GCP-to-AWS migrations, built multi-environment EKS deployments for 50+ microservices, and achieved 35–40% infra cost reductions using FinOps practices. Currently working at Infra360 (Gurugram) as Associate DevOps Engineer. I write about real-world DevOps challenges, cloud-native architecture, and GitOps best practices at blog.devopswithpiyush.in. 🎓 MCA | University Institute of Technology, Bhopal 🏅 AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate 🏅 Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) | Linux Foundation