diff --git a/internal/cluster/providers/eks/resumehint.go b/internal/cluster/providers/eks/resumehint.go
index 70f6072d..10a49424 100644
--- a/internal/cluster/providers/eks/resumehint.go
+++ b/internal/cluster/providers/eks/resumehint.go
@@ -1,21 +1,21 @@
 package eks
 
+import "github.com/openframe/internal/shared/resumehint"
+
 // resumeHintError carries a resume instruction that survives the generic
 // interruption handler. On Ctrl+C that handler prints only "Operation cancelled
 // by user." and discards err.Error(), so a hint wrapped only as message text is
 // lost. internal/shared/errors surfaces the hint via the ResumeHint() method
 // even for an interrupted operation. (The GKE twin: gke/resumehint.go.)
-type resumeHintError struct {
-	err  error
-	hint string
-}
-
-func (e *resumeHintError) Error() string      { return e.err.Error() }
-func (e *resumeHintError) Unwrap() error      { return e.err }
-func (e *resumeHintError) ResumeHint() string { return e.hint }
+//
+// This is a thin alias over the shared implementation in
+// internal/shared/resumehint to avoid duplicating the type/logic across
+// provider packages (see OPENFRAM-001 for cross-package import aliasing
+// conventions).
+type resumeHintError = resumehint.Error
 
 // withResumeHint attaches hint to err structurally (not just in the message
 // text), so it survives the interruption handler that drops err.Error().
 func withResumeHint(err error, hint string) error {
-	return &resumeHintError{err: err, hint: hint}
+	return resumehint.WithResumeHint(err, hint)
 }