Very funny article, we are spending 2 people full time (on 4) trying to building on AWS services. This is really a mess and cost a lot of human resources.
If your team is a bunch of software devs, you are doing the right thing… because k8s requires a bunch of knowledge you likely don’t have if you don’t have a Linux guru on the team. Even if you are using an expensive managed solution, things will go wrong and that knowledge is needed to prevent downtime.