You get what you pay for. You can pay a lot of money and have almost no worries (and lots of free time), or pay a little money and have lots of worries (and no free time).
And since the OP was talking about Kubernetes, and you're talking about "lock-in", another reason I love AWS is it is not a lock-in device. I can use any service of AWS's by itself, without being forced to use anything else or do something in a proprietary way. All the interfaces are a command-line or REST API with JSON data formats. They are all designed to operate by themselves, so you can provide replacement components at any time, hosted anywhere.
On the other hand, you can't just use one part of K8s, because you have to at least set up and manage an entire cluster first. And there's dozens of services K8s simply does not have, and other hosting providers don't have.
And since the OP was talking about Kubernetes, and you're talking about "lock-in", another reason I love AWS is it is not a lock-in device. I can use any service of AWS's by itself, without being forced to use anything else or do something in a proprietary way. All the interfaces are a command-line or REST API with JSON data formats. They are all designed to operate by themselves, so you can provide replacement components at any time, hosted anywhere.
On the other hand, you can't just use one part of K8s, because you have to at least set up and manage an entire cluster first. And there's dozens of services K8s simply does not have, and other hosting providers don't have.