There needs to be a compelling way to run it on AWS for this to happen.
for turn up instructions on AWS, it's as easy as:
export KUBERNETES_PROVIDER=aws; wget -q -O - https://get.k8s.io | bash
It's not just them - doing things this way makes it seem like this is in any way acceptable. It's not. Stop it.
No wonder it's so easy for TAO.
It's for the people who don't know any better and see this anti-pattern everywhere and thereby begin to think it's okay or accepted. It's not.
https://coreos.com/blog/kubernetes-on-any-platform/
https://coreos.com/docs/running-coreos/cloud-providers/ec2/
Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud but not Kubernetes or GKE.
Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud but not Kubernetes or GKE.