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Why do you think AWS charges for K8s master nodes (control plane), when both of their major competitors do not?
by ablekh 7y ago
Why do you think AWS charges for K8s master nodes (control plane), when both of their major competitors do not?
- wmf 7y agoBecause they can, of course. But it's still hard to imagine a third-party product (e.g. OpenShift) being cheaper than $0.10 per hour.
- ablekh 7y agoThey surely can. But so is true for Azure and GCP as well. Thus, I'm curious about whether it is a feasible pricing strategy for AWS, considering the fact that EKS is not much different from their competition's managed K8s offerings.
- wmf 7y agoI mean AWS can charge more because they're viewed as the "default" or "leader" cloud; Google and Azure are not.
- ablekh 7y agoUnderstood. This IMO is a bit of a shaky ground, because, while still being (or being perceived as) a cloud leader - though Azure a formidable competitor across the cloud spectrum - AWS is definitely not a leader in the managed K8s area (where GCP clearly is, at least, as of now).