[fibonacc]

You don't really need AWS for personal weekend type of projects or small startups but for large companies, they seem to be accelerating their dependence on AWS and its not a bad thing imho, it means a standard is emerging and companies are voting with their money.

kubernetes on the other hand....think will be replaced by fargate/ecs, I still struggle to know why startups with a dozen container services need kubernetes. Not having opinionated standard creates so much complexity with endless amount of configurations.

[cheriot]

AWS: proprietary APIs implemented by one vendor

K8S: many vendors collaborating on a API they all implement

I'd call kubernetes the emerging standard.

[gfarah]

Companies (even small startups) working in regulated spaces can benefit from using the public cloud for the compliance aspect. More than once I've had a regulator ask me for X or Y security certifications, very easy to point to the list that ECS has, much harder to do if running on IaaS or in bare metal.

[fibonacc]

exactly, yes you have to pay the piper but there are real contractual liability shift away from the operator by going with aws