[youngdynasty]

I run a hobby project in multiple zones because low latency is important, and Kubernetes makes it easy to do so.

There's no way I'm going to pay an extra $73/mo -- I already pay for the computing resources, this should be free.

Looks like I'll be moving away from GKE. It's a shame, I _was_ a big advocate.

[sethvargo]

We offer one free zonal cluster, which is specifically designed for your use case :)

[sofaofthedamned]

I have personal experience of a few companies in the UK where GCP are offering 90+% discounts to onboard. GCP are spending hundreds of millions to do this. K8S control-planes are a rounding error compared to this.

You could have grandfathered in current deployments but - nope. In the tech world this is up there with killing Google Reader.

[youngdynasty]

I use more than one zone because I run TCP services which need low latency. I'll probably just switch to Digital Ocean.