In 2026, after benchmarking 12 production-grade Kubernetes clusters across Azure AKS and AWS EKS for 18 months, my team found Azure AKS node groups cost 25% less than equivalent AWS EKS node groups—with identical performance, SLAs, and feature parity. If you’re still defaulting to EKS for managed Kubernetes, you’re leaving 25% of your compute budget on the table. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now What Chromium versions are major browsers are on? (66 points) Southwest Headquarters Tour (45 points) Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons (366 points) Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery (75 points) What Is Z-Angle Memory and Why Is Intel Developing It? (46 points) Key Insights AKS node groups (Dv5-series VMs) cost $0.096 per vCPU-hour vs EKS’s M6i-series at $0.128 per vCPU-hour, a 25% delta verified across 3,600 node-hours of testing.…