The article discusses running Github Actions Self Hosted Runners on EKS Auto with AWS Heroes and the impressive results in terms of performance, speed, and cost efficiency. The author compares large hosted runners by GitHub with running runners on Kubernetes for better performance. The self-hosted runner concept on Kubernetes is explained, along with a Terraform code walkthrough for setting up auto-scaling GitHub Actions self-hosted runners on Amazon EKS using GitHub’s Actions Runner Controller. The article also covers the benefits of this approach, testing scenarios, performance comparisons, price analysis, and the architectural overview of the solution from a solutions architect perspective.