AWS's Kubernetes dilemma: It's a burden and a pleasure

Keep the devs happy, or Microsoft and Google will catch you

Amazon Web Services became the 800-pound cloud gorilla by catering to developers. It expects to own the container crown with the exact same strategy, touting convenience and productivity gains to users of its EC2 Container Service (ECS). There are signs, however, that this fight won't be as simple, and that a cross-cloud container option like Kubernetes could be the spoiler to Amazon's steady march."