[nostrebored]

Yes. Whenever I look at a company with less than 20 people with EKS in their stack, I don't go any further. It is such a colossal waste of velocity for a small business or early startup.

As someone who is very pro cloud -- one of my worst experiences working at a cloud provider was a push from on high to sell our customers on a 'cloud modernization initative' that centered on managed kubernetes. At the time, most of my customers were struggling with creating a stateless app, much less horizontal scaling and managing an enterprise-grade compute abstraction layer.

I think K8S is a great tool with a dedicated team and a platform built around it to meet the way that your company ships infrastructure. But what I've just mentioned only makes sense fiscally in the high X00's count or more of engineers.