I've seen it work. I’ve managed EKS clusters for small teams myself, so it’s definitely doable. The real challenge isn’t setting up the EKS cluster, but config

I've seen it work. I’ve managed EKS clusters for small teams myself, so it’s definitely doable. The real challenge isn’t setting up the EKS cluster, but configuring everything around it: RBAC, secrets management, infrastructure-as-code, and so on. That part takes experience. If you haven’t done it before, you're likely to make decisions that will eventually come back to haunt you — not in a catastrophic way, but enough to require a painful redesign later. P.S. If your needs are simple, consider starting with Docker Swarm. It's surprisingly low maintenance compared to Kubernetes, which has many moving parts and frequent deprecations from cloud providers. Feel free to drop me an email. I can share a custom Python tool I've written long time ago to automate the initial setup via the AWS API.