Reducing friction. At the time private zones in Kops were more of a PITA to setup and I would have had to explain a bunch more stuff in the article. I might lo

Reducing friction. At the time private zones in Kops were more of a PITA to setup and I would have had to explain a bunch more stuff in the article. I might look at that again when I redo the guide. Also considering switching to the new Gossip based discovery mechanism so that Route 53 isn't even a requirement. I was recently setting up a cluster for a customer and they complained about having to use Route 53.