You also get a private registry. And all the complexities of authentication are wrapped up in a nice package. And upgrading your cluster is easy too. Just one

You also get a private registry. And all the complexities of authentication are wrapped up in a nice package. And upgrading your cluster is easy too. Just one command and it rolls it out server-by-server, doing a full health check afterwards. k8s (not specific to GCE) also integrates with network drives, so attaching and maintain persistent storage is really easy. I've used ECS and it feels just so vanilla by comparison. AWS should have just built a hosted cluster system, rather than one from scratch.