Tutorials make Kubernetes look simple. Real production is different. Here is what actually matters after dozens of client engagements.
Managed Control Plane
EKS, GKE, or AKS. Self-managing etcd is a full-time team.
Observability Day One
Prometheus, Grafana, log aggregation, distributed tracing before first incident.
Resource Requests/Limits
Profile actual usage, set requests at p95, limits with headroom. Revisit quarterly.
Network Policies
Default pod-to-pod is open. Enforce least privilege. Our security consultants baseline this.
Who This Is For
- Infrastructure and platform engineering teams
- SREs responsible for uptime and cost at scale
- Engineering leaders choosing between build and buy
Common Mistakes
- Multi-cloud complexity without a concrete business need
- Ignoring FinOps until the bill becomes a board-level issue
- Treating cloud as a data center rather than a platform
Business Impact
- 25-40% cloud cost reduction with zero performance loss
- Multi-region resilience without multi-cloud tax
- Platform that scales independently of headcount
Frequently Asked Questions
Overkill for small teams?
Often. Cloud Run, ECS Fargate are faster to ship.
Service mesh?
Istio/Linkerd solve real problems at real cost. Adopt when you can name the problem.
Stateful workloads?
Use managed DBs. Keep K8s for stateless.
Why AIM Tech AI
- Custom-built systems, not templates or off-the-shelf wrappers
- AI + backend + cloud + infrastructure expertise in one team
- Built for production scale, not demo-day experiments
- Beverly Hills, California — serving clients worldwide
Build Systems, Not Experiments
AIM Tech AI designs and ships AI, cloud, and custom software systems for companies ready to turn technology into real business advantage.
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