Rob Stewart

Leveraging EKS Pod Identity on AWS EKS (Part 3 of 3): Cross-Account Access

By Rob Stewart / 31 July 2025 /

In Part 3, we’ll tackle the challenge of granting EKS pods access to AWS resources in a different AWS account.

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Leveraging EKS Pod Identity on AWS EKS (Part 2 of 3): Cluster Management

By Rob Stewart / 24 July 2025 /

Explore how you can simplify EKS cluster administration by using and securing Amazon EKS Add-Ons.

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Leveraging EKS Pod Identity on AWS EKS (Part 1 of 3): Securing Application Access

By Rob Stewart / 17 July 2025 /

In the first post of this series, see how EKS Pod Identity is the more secure way to grant pods fine-grained AWS permissions.

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AWS EKS Upgrades: Don’t Pay the Price for Outdated Clusters

By Rob Stewart / 31 January 2025 /

Amazon EKS updates are crucial for security and updated features. Read about our best practices for regular upgrades to avoid extra costs and stay current.

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SMS Engineering is Keeping a Close Eye on OpenTofu

By Rob Stewart / 17 May 2024 /

OpenTofu is making waves as an open-source Infrastructure as Code tool. See how SMS Engineers can help migrate your IaC projects.

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Deploying DokuWiki on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) – Part 2 of 2

By Rob Stewart / 15 August 2022 /

How to move on from a “Click-Ops” deployment via the AWS console to an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployment using Terraform.

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Deploying Your First Container on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) – Part 1 of 2

By Rob Stewart / 7 July 2022 / Comments Off on Deploying Your First Container on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) – Part 1 of 2

The experts have all weighed in and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is the only option worth considering.

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