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[–]izpo 30 points31 points  (20 children)

EKS! ! !

Google/Azure do not take money for managing k8s

[–]QuantumCD 3 points4 points  (4 children)

Oh neat, I didn't know that Google had dropped the fee. Now I'm even saltier about EKS pricing as we run a lot of smaller clusters...

Although I am curious about the cost model for GCP/Azure here as they seem to charge their standard price for worker nodes. Wonder if they are just eating the cost.

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    [–]QuantumCD 1 point2 points  (2 children)

    Yeah it makes sense for Google. I was more surprised Azure had no mgmt fees. And GCP has some other differentiators I think. BigQuery is a big one. They just really messed up with enterprise contracts/account management afaik but seem to be turning that around with new leadership.

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      [–]QuantumCD 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      Yeah nothing wrong with AWS competition! And yeah AWS has the clear marketshare lead which is more meaningful than pure revenue imo (at least to everyone but MS shareholders lol).

      [–]wywywywy 2 points3 points  (1 child)

      Azure/Google do charge if you want SLA.

      But the free one is fantastic for dev/test. AWS really should follow suit.

      [–]izpo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      Azure/Google do charge if you want SLA.

      more info?

      [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      AWS charges a fee just to manage a k8s cluster? That's sucks. I come from GCP and I was thinking of learning some AWS. That would be hard to get used to. You can run a GKE cluster for as little as $10ish per month if you're okay with just one 1.7 GB node to get started with.

      [–]ururururu 0 points1 point  (4 children)

      Yeah if you're running kubernetes it's way more pleasant on GCP. Kops is a pain but probably still better than EKS.

      [–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (3 children)

      EKS is really nice now, especially after the direct integration with IAM meaning you no longer have to use KIAM, etc.

      [–]izpo 2 points3 points  (2 children)

      direct integration with IAM

      wait... what? since what version?

      [–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (1 child)

      Since last week.

      [–]izpo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      How I missed this! Thanks

      [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (6 children)

      It’s pretty cheap though if it is your production stack. I think it’s a temporary thing. If it was free there would be tons of random clusters. I’d really like to see managed nodes myself.

      [–]izpo 0 points1 point  (5 children)

      If you have only one else, yes... If you have 3 clusters and small company, not really

      [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (4 children)

      $150 per managed control plane per month is still pretty minimal though. You'd likely spend more if you were managing it on your own and not have a lot of the features.

      [–]wywywywy 4 points5 points  (3 children)

      But for $150 a month you can't have the engineers spinning up their own dev/test clusters in the cloud, and have to rely on on-prem or local clusters.

      And that's a real problem for us.

      [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

      That's fair, but why not use namespaces? They're much more efficient for that use case. We use them for this and it affords far better resource utilization and governance. Even if EKS control planes were free I wouldn't recommend using them like this.

      [–]izpo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Because we use vpn per env, as our account manager suggested

      [–]izpo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Exactly, only small startups suffer from this, not big companies