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| Dimension | K8sSelf-hosted | ECSManaged | FlyPaaS | NomadHashiCorp | GKEManaged K8s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cold Start Latency | ●8–45s | ●12–60s | ●< 2s | ●5–20s | ●6–30s |
Secret Management | ●etcd (base64) | ●SSM + Secrets Manager | ●fly secrets set | ●Vault native | ●Secret Manager CSI |
Auto-scaling Granularity | ●HPA + KEDA | ●Target Tracking | ●Scale-to-zero native | ●Autoscaler plugin | ●VPA + HPA + NAP |
Built-in Observability | ●Minimal (metrics-server) | ●CloudWatch native | ●Prometheus + Grafana | ●Telegraf + Consul | ●Cloud Monitoring |
Multi-region Deployment | ●Federation (complex) | ●Manual per-region | ●fly regions add | ●Multi-region jobs | ●Multi-cluster Ingress |
Cost Visibility | ●Kubecost (OSS) | ●Cost Explorer tags | ●Per-machine billing | ●None native | ●GKE Cost Insights |
Service Mesh Ready | ●Istio / Linkerd / Cilium | ●App Mesh (deprecated) | ●WireGuard native | ●Consul Connect | ●Anthos Service Mesh |
Rollback Speed | ●kubectl rollout undo | ●Circuit breaker | ●fly deploy --strategy | ●Job revert | ●Deployment rollout |
Stateful Workloads | ●StatefulSets + PVC | ●EFS mount targets | ●fly volumes | ●CSI plugins | ●Persistent Disks + CSI |
Time to Production | ●14–30 days | ●3–7 days | ●< 1 day | ●5–10 days | ●7–14 days |
Community Plugin Count | ●1,200+ Helm charts | ●~180 integrations | ●~40 extensions | ●~200 integrations | ●Full K8s + GCP |
Series A Fit Score | ●7.2 / 10 | ●7.8 / 10 | ●8.9 / 10 | ●6.5 / 10 | ●8.1 / 10 |
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