A lot of the EKS disadvantages, I've noticed, are from AWS attempting to make things complicated. On the GKE side it's really set and forget, just pick a release channel to subscribe to.

AWS makes you do things like manage node OS and addon versions, which is pretty ridiculous. I feel like it only exists to lock people in to ECS/Fargate and make people assume Kubernetes has to be complicated.

Is this the kind of thing EKS Auto Mode helps with? (For a price, of course)