This. We’ve been chugging along happily on Fargate for a while now. We looked into EKS, but there is a ton of stuff you have to do manually that is built into Fargate or at least Fargate makes it trivial to integrate with other AWS services (logging, monitoring, IAM integration, cert manager, load balancers, secrets management, etc). I’d like to use Kubernetes, but Fargate just works out of the box. Fortunately, AWS seems to be making EKS better all the time.
Like others have said, cross that bridge if/when we get to it--there's no sense in incurring the Kubernetes cost now because one day we might have to switch to Kubernetes anyway.
It's also worth noting that Fargate has actually gotten considerably cheaper since we started using it, probably because of the firecracker VM technology. I'm pretty happy with Fargate.
I'm pretty sure AWS has a better track record than Google when it comes to keeping old crud alive for the benefit of its customers.
In my experience AWS generally gives at least a year's notice before killing something or they offer something better that's easy to move to well in advance of killing the old.
