atomland

Well, to begin with, I think people worry too much about vendor lock-in. Use the tools your cloud vendor provides to make your life easier. Isn’t that one of the reasons you chose them?

That said, moving containers to another container orchestrator isn’t terribly difficult, so I don’t personally worry about vendor lock-in for containerized workloads. If your workloads have dependencies on other vendor-specific services, that’s a different story, but basically a container is easy to move elsewhere.

I run multiple small EKS clusters at a small company. It doesn’t cost anywhere near $1 million per year, even taking my salary into account. If you don’t factor in my salary, it’s maybe $50k per year, and that’s for 4 clusters.

Honestly this flowchart is kind of a mess, and I certainly wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.