For this edition of The New Stack Makers, we sit down with Alex Kestner, principal product manager at Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, Amazon Web Services. Kestner explains how Amazon EKS Auto Mode fits into AWS’s hyperscaler stack and his role in engaging with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). This discussion took place during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026, in Amsterdam.
Inherent power, inherent complexity
Getting the inconvenient truth out of the way…

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