Comment by ezrast

The alternatives aren't frictionless either; many items from that image are not specific to Kubernetes. I personally find AWS API's frustrating to use, so even if I were running a one-person shop (and was bound to AWS for some reason - maybe a warlock has cursed me?) I'd lean towards managing things from EKS to get an interface that fits my brain better. It's just preference, though - EC2 auto-scaling is perfectly viable if that's your jam.