Comment by ftreml

> The only people who are optimizing for three-figure costs every month are either:

In our case, we are doing the same for around 50 clients, so it sums up :-)

> Who would do this and why? Why would you have a load balancer in front of a single server?

afaik, for publishing something to the outside world from EKS, that's the only way - even for single node clusters