On: Ask HN: Who operates at scale without containers?

[fer]

Sometimes I think K8s is largely pushed for Amazon/Google/Microsoft to sell the disk that goes along with it.

[zomglings → fer]

Don't forget network costs (especially for "high availability" clusters spanning multiple regions).

[swiftcoder → fer]

Admittedly it's 5 years since I worked at AWS, but at the time there was basically no internal usage of containers. ECS was pushing customers towards containers, but the the feeling towards containers at the time inside the company could be summed up as "we have a decade worth of operational tooling, why would we throw that all away?"