Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate Now Generally Available (opens in new tab)

For just to be future-proof, you can install proper K8s on a single node, then scale out. To those who knows K8s inside out, to set up such K8s for a hobby project takes about 5-10 minutes, so not a huge investment of time.

Yeah, I was kind of expecting AWS to announce that they're dropping the EKS per-cluster charge this year, or at least lower it. I suppose that could still happen this week.

I don't regularly use AWS services, but it would seem to me that writing operational tooling (deployment descriptors and such) to the Kubernetes API allows more control over the management of your app and more portability to other cloud providers compared to ECS. On the other hand, ECS is a bit more "turnkey", doing more of the detailed control isn't required. It's worth someone with more regular usage weighing in, though.

Probably for two main reasons:

* Open APIs, if you care about being able to move away from AWS

* Tooling. People are likely to build a lot of tooling around Kubernetes, relative to Fargate/ECS.

That's my guess.