> try to encourage people to migrate to more expensive managed container orchestration services.
The question is: what service? ECS is the competing Amazon built service and it’s entirely free for management, you just pay for compute. We don’t use k8s because ECS is free and we don’t plan on leaving AWS.
Sure, you’re more locked in with ECS, but if you aren’t doing funky stuff with the APIs you can probably off ramp to k8s pretty easily. I know I could move us in a week or less, we’d have far bigger problems with the other AWS services we use.
how are you managing/configuring/monitoring/understanding ECS? (terraform?) to me it's a complete spaghetti with thick WTF-sauce. at least with k8s there's YAML and only YAML. (and there's CDK8S, and it supports tests, and spinning up a new cluster to test things is straightforward.)
sure, I guess there's a whole industry that offers services to help manage AWS, but at that point the whole thing could be just spun off to the lowest bidder. (although I understand that people can make up a neverending list of reasons (excoughses) to keep paying the AWS tax.)
... okay, I'm probably too salty. if it works it works, if it's profitable and business is happy, it's hard to argue with the stack.
The question is: what service? ECS is the competing Amazon built service and it’s entirely free for management, you just pay for compute. We don’t use k8s because ECS is free and we don’t plan on leaving AWS.
Sure, you’re more locked in with ECS, but if you aren’t doing funky stuff with the APIs you can probably off ramp to k8s pretty easily. I know I could move us in a week or less, we’d have far bigger problems with the other AWS services we use.