GKE and AKS both require setting up instance types for node pool(s) but you don't need to worry about the OS and related issues on either. Both also support aut

GKE and AKS both require setting up instance types for node pool(s) but you don't need to worry about the OS and related issues on either. Both also support auto-scaling and auto-upgrades. GKE is far more managed though with advanced features like global network, aliased IPs, global load-balancing, istio/traffic manager integration, private IPs, metrics-based-autoscaling, preemptible nodes, local SSDs, GPUs, TPUs, etc. Azure Container Instances are nice, with the GCP corollary being Cloud Run using KNative. Both products are designed to quickly run a container image with a public endpoint, but ACI is not part of AKS. You might be thinking of the Azure Virtual Kubelet which lets you burst on-demand to ACI, but this is a very advanced use-case and not the normal cluster setup.