Amazon is IMHO an anti-example - they have huge installed base of tooling to handle VMs, and most importantly, they have huge scale of capital available. Throwing single-use VMs at the wall is cheap for them.
Meanwhile, I was chugging around with k8s because it was balance between "easy to deploy our workloads with minimal time spent" vs "increasing the cost by few pizzas will cause noticeable loss so pack those VMs tight".
Meanwhile, I was chugging around with k8s because it was balance between "easy to deploy our workloads with minimal time spent" vs "increasing the cost by few pizzas will cause noticeable loss so pack those VMs tight".