> Mind you, avoiding K8s and sticing with lambda + ECS for long running stuff is far simpler to understand, even if updating it with CF is a massive ball ache.

> Mind you, avoiding K8s and sticing with lambda + ECS for long running stuff is far simpler to understand, even if updating it with CF is a massive ball ache. actually with GKE you can run your "AppEngine" apps directly on GKE: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/python/run-flex-app-on-kubernetes?hl=de https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/python/run-... Better yet there is the "next gen" stuff from AppEngine (Cloud Run) which is like Fargate, but can ALSO run on your own GKE: https://cloud.google.com/run/ https://cloud.google.com/run/ the only thing which I still think is way more expensive/worse than the aws counterpart is RDS. (Google has a hosted db service, but that feels worse than rds)