[Thomaschaaf]

Getting all of the mentioned requires a real cloud provider which offers more than just servers. Thus you need to choose among the cloud providers. Digitalocean is another provider offering a managed k8s. GCE gives you 600 usd credit - this is valuable if you want to learn new tech.

I actually switched all our servers from hetzner to aws because for our needs it was cheaper and I could spend my time on things I care about. For me K8s only handles non persisting data. All data other is stored outside (Managed DB (like RDS) or S3) of it. You only need to backup the masters. If you use something like GCE that is managed for you & free.