Kubernetes made my latency 10x higher

Update: it looks this post has gotten way more attention than I anticipated. I’ve seen / received feedback that the title is misleading and some people get dissapointed. I see why, so at the risk of spoiling the surprise, let me clarify what this is about before starting. As we migrate teams over to Kubernetes, I’m observing that every time someone has an issue, like “latency went up after migrati

[yujiorama]

"It was a behaviour resulting from the combination of two independent defaults, in KIAM and the AWS Java SDK. "

[bootJP]

“In this case, our high latency wasn’t the result of bugs or bad decisions in Kubernetes, KIAM, the AWS Java SDK, or our microservice. It was a behaviour resulting from the combination of two independent defaults, in KIAM and the AWS Java SDK”