running containers on google compute or ec2 has always been the same.

gke is great, however. if you need to run kubernetes in production, today, i would not even slightly hesitate to yell to the corners of the earth to run gke. it makes me excited for eks!

i would also say that the new c5 instance type w/ ena is extremely nice. if they are unaffected by this, they're probably the fastest cpu-based instances you can get anywhere (admittedly i haven't checked... really anything else, but they're fast).