I'm talking here about the managed Kubernetes offerings from AWS and Azure. As for when I last used them: waiting for provisioning right now (18 mins and counting) is affording me the time to comment on this article.
maybe you should use gcloud gke. or even digitalocean, they provision in under then minutes aswell.
not sure why aws and azure take so long.
when was the last time you used k8s?! I mean as of now there is even the expirmental k3os which boots a fully fledged k8s in seconds. you can even built a cluster with it. sadly HA backplane is still not available since k3s is still early in its development.