To be clear, I'm not claiming you can't do these things on native AWS, but rather there are wide choice of high-quality projects ready to go that target k8s.

To be clear, I'm not claiming you can't do these things on native AWS, but rather there are wide choice of high-quality projects ready to go that target k8s. - Countless Helm charts - Development tools like Telepresence - Many GUIs / terminal UIs - CI/CD tools like Argo - Logging and monitoring tools - Chaos engineering tools - Security and compliance tools - Service meshes / request tracing - Operators for self-healing services - Resource provisioning - etc...