At my last job, I would have happily gone into the office at 3am to swap a hard drive if it meant I didn't have to pay my AWS bill anymore. Computers are cheap. Backups are annoying, but you have to do them in the cloud too. (Deleting your Cloud SQL instance accidentally deletes all the automatic backups; so you have to roll your own if you care at all. Things like that; cloud providers remove some annoyance, and then add their own. If you operate software in production, you have to tolerate annoyance!)
Self-managed Kubernetes is no picnic, but nothing operational is ever a picnic. If it's not debugging a weird networking issue with tcpdump while sitting on the datacenter floor, it's begging your account rep for an update on your ticket twice a day for 3 weeks. Pick your poison.
Self-managed Kubernetes is no picnic, but nothing operational is ever a picnic. If it's not debugging a weird networking issue with tcpdump while sitting on the datacenter floor, it's begging your account rep for an update on your ticket twice a day for 3 weeks. Pick your poison.