To be clear, I'm not claiming you can't do these things on native AWS, but rather there are wide choice of high-quality projects ready to go that target k8s.

  - Countless Helm charts
  - Development tools like Telepresence
  - Many GUIs / terminal UIs
  - CI/CD tools like Argo
  - Logging and monitoring tools
  - Chaos engineering tools
  - Security and compliance tools
  - Service meshes / request tracing
  - Operators for self-healing services
  - Resource provisioning
  - etc...