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You are basically using a very similiar tool/workflow just as a managed service from Amazon with a hard dependency.

This 'k8s' fad is the open source version of what you are using.

Its like you would say 'monitoring is a fad' we migrated away from monitoring and are now using amazon CloudWatch and are super happy with it.

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> This 'k8s' fad is the open source version of what you are using

That would be AWS EKS. ECS is very different beast. Wins big in infra-as-a-code (CFN). And simpler, fully integrated, and you get full AWS support, not the case with EKS or hand rolled kube.

> .. monitoring is a fad ..

We did some pretty fancy things in monitoring. ELK and more. And yes, it uses some useful bits of CW.

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