[jorams]

Since the post only mentions Kubernetes once, I don't really understand why it's in the title at all.

> The team didn't have much DevOps expertise in-house, so a Kubernetes setup, even using a managed service like EKS, would have been way too complex for them at this stage, not to mention the additional costs of running the control plane which they wanted to avoid.

The control plane cost makes sense, but I can't imagine learning Terraform to set up ECS is that much easier than learning Yaml to configure k8s. Unless EKS is much harder to use than GKE.

[danpalmer]

Also the control plane cost is basically irrelevant at any real scale, I think it's pretty much there to discourage hobby projects from taking up a free VM.

[benced]

It is - EKS had fewer features.