Your point is valid, but 2 things: > One thing we noticed is that there's an increasing number of startups who start on a PaaS like Heroku and end up migrating

Your point is valid, but 2 things: > One thing we noticed is that there's an increasing number of startups who start on a PaaS like Heroku and end up migrating to k8s later as their applications “grow out” of Heroku, due to constraints in networking, performance, security, etc. They seem to be particularly targetting users who are migrating off of Heroku (and are migrating to 'their own' Kubernetes) due to cost, at which point $72/m is likely a tiny drop in the bucket. Second, I agree with you that the EKS pricing is extremely restrictive for small projects, and especially for projects that require multiple clusters. But that is kind of a gripe at AWS and their Kubernetes offering, rather than Porter. They appear to support other Kubernetes cloud offerings, so just use DigitalOcean's (DOKS) if you don't want to pay for your control plane.