Having used GKE and EKS, I will say GKE is much simpler. Kubernetes is a powerful platform but you're right--it does have a lot of complexity and overhead. ECS

Having used GKE and EKS, I will say GKE is much simpler. Kubernetes is a powerful platform but you're right--it does have a lot of complexity and overhead. ECS and Fargate are pretty solid if you want to run fairly simple containers but it's still a bit annoying they don't have all the cross-service integrations that Lambda does (SNS/SQS invokation, Kafka, etc)