2026 Will Be the Year of Agentic Workloads in Production on Amazon EKS

When AWS launched Elastic Kubernetes Service in 2018, the target audience was early adopters who wanted a managed control plane and to handle everything else themselves. Over the last eight years, that has changed quite a bit.

“We’re starting to get into more the late majority, even the laggards,” said Mike Stefaniak, senior manager of product management for EKS and ECR at AWS. “People come into Kubernetes. They don’t have massive platform teams. They don’t want to manage every single thing…