The last one (Kubernetes is my control plane but not my data plane) is completely stupid. Instead of that why not use terraform or equivalents ? Paying for EKS

The last one (Kubernetes is my control plane but not my data plane) is completely stupid. Instead of that why not use terraform or equivalents ? Paying for EKS just to use its API to provision and manage other AWS resources is an interesting idea, but not something I'd use in production.