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Migrating 45 services from EC2/systemd to EKS — and cutting deploys 4.5×

A field report from leading a platform migration of 45 services and 250+ instances at a multi-tenant SaaS company.

Navneet Lal Gupta

2026-05-14 · 9 min read · Updated 2026-05-16

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EC2/systemd → EKS

45 services · 250+ instances

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The short version: we moved 45 services off long-lived EC2 instances and onto EKS without a maintenance window, cut deploy times from 90 minutes to 20, and turned on autoscaling for the first time.

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