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Re: Amazon EKS – Now Generally Available

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> You pay $0.20 per hour for the EKS Control Plane, and usual EC2, EBS, and Load Balancing prices for resources that run in your account Objectively that's not bad for HA masters in separate AZs, but I think for those who have been using Kubernetes on the Google cloud it's certainly going to have a hard time competing with "you don't pay anything for HA masters at all." > ingress from the Twitch stream, it sounds lik…

Ouch, no option to schedule pods onto the control plane for small clusters?

Re: Amazon EKS – Now Generally Available

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> You pay $0.20 per hour for the EKS Control Plane, and usual EC2, EBS, and Load Balancing prices for resources that run in your account Objectively that's not bad for HA masters in separate AZs, but I think for those who have been using Kubernetes on the Google cloud it's certainly going to have a hard time competing with "you don't pay anything for HA masters at all." > ingress from the Twitch stream, it sounds lik…

HA seems like a poor choice as a default. I don't want to pay ~$150/month for dev and staging clusters, and I certainly don't need them to be HA. IIUC, Google/GKE and Microsoft/AKS are single-zone by default... free for masters, but not free for HA.

Google and Amazon are enterprise services. If you consider $150 too expensive, you are not part of the target customers.

Re: Amazon EKS – Now Generally Available

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

HA seems like a poor choice as a default. I don't want to pay ~$150/month for dev and staging clusters, and I certainly don't need them to be HA. IIUC, Google/GKE and Microsoft/AKS are single-zone by default... free for masters, but not free for HA.

Google and Amazon are enterprise services. If you consider $150 too expensive, you are not part of the target customers.

The Google GKE offering can operate with a single g1-small worker.

That's $0.0257/hr or $0.0070/hr preemptible. $5/mo minimum*

This is not even the same ballpark.

*(to be fair, the $5/mo minimum does not include a private network and a load balancer, and you will almost definitely need both in order to actually do anything with a cluster.)

Re: Amazon EKS – Now Generally Available

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> You pay $0.20 per hour for the EKS Control Plane, and usual EC2, EBS, and Load Balancing prices for resources that run in your account Objectively that's not bad for HA masters in separate AZs, but I think for those who have been using Kubernetes on the Google cloud it's certainly going to have a hard time competing with "you don't pay anything for HA masters at all." > ingress from the Twitch stream, it sounds lik…

HA seems like a poor choice as a default. I don't want to pay ~$150/month for dev and staging clusters, and I certainly don't need them to be HA. IIUC, Google/GKE and Microsoft/AKS are single-zone by default... free for masters, but not free for HA.

GKE is free for HA as well: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/06/Regional-cluste...

Re: Amazon EKS – Now Generally Available

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> You pay $0.20 per hour for the EKS Control Plane, and usual EC2, EBS, and Load Balancing prices for resources that run in your account Objectively that's not bad for HA masters in separate AZs, but I think for those who have been using Kubernetes on the Google cloud it's certainly going to have a hard time competing with "you don't pay anything for HA masters at all." > ingress from the Twitch stream, it sounds lik…

HA seems like a poor choice as a default. I don't want to pay ~$150/month for dev and staging clusters, and I certainly don't need them to be HA. IIUC, Google/GKE and Microsoft/AKS are single-zone by default... free for masters, but not free for HA.

Looks like they want companies to pay to avoid the platform lock-in that k8s helps you avoid...

Re: Amazon EKS – Now Generally Available

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Been waiting for this for... 7 months now since its announcement at ReInvent? My initial impressions are very negative. What even is the point of this? The clusters themselves do nothing, they're just a control plane you pay $144/month for. You need to add nodes from CloudFormation? Is there any integration at all with CodeBuild/CodeDeploy/CodePipeline? No mention anywhere of Ingress... I sure hope that's built in, b…

In the launch video they asked about Ingress and it's apparently a work in progress.

Re: Amazon EKS – Now Generally Available

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FYI: EKS is currently only available in us-west-2 (Oregon) and us-east-1 (N. Virginia)

Not as generally available as I thought, and for the looks of it, feels just as "hacky" as the preview with respect to the user experience. For some reason, I was expecting more from them.

Re: Amazon EKS – Now Generally Available

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post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google and Amazon are enterprise services. If you consider $150 too expensive, you are not part of the target customers.

The Google GKE offering can operate with a single g1-small worker. That's $0.0257/hr or $0.0070/hr preemptible. $5/mo minimum* This is not even the same ballpark. *(to be fair, the $5/mo minimum does not include a private network and a load balancer, and you will almost definitely need both in order to actually do anything with a cluster.)

You're thinking like a human. There are plenty of organizations where $5/mo and $150/mo are essentially indistinguishable and would not affect decision making in any way.

Re: Amazon EKS – Now Generally Available

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> You pay $0.20 per hour for the EKS Control Plane, and usual EC2, EBS, and Load Balancing prices for resources that run in your account Objectively that's not bad for HA masters in separate AZs, but I think for those who have been using Kubernetes on the Google cloud it's certainly going to have a hard time competing with "you don't pay anything for HA masters at all." > ingress from the Twitch stream, it sounds lik…

Ouch, no option to schedule pods onto the control plane for small clusters?

AFAIK, none of the big three cloud providers (GKE,AKS,EKS) lets you do this.
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