AWS quietly enters the multicloud era

guest · Dec 3, 2020

AWS quietly enters the multicloud era
December 2, 2020
https://www.protocol.com/aws-multicloud-era

It was easy to miss a line on two slides presented during AWS CEO Andy Jassy's Tuesday morning keynote at re:Invent 2020. But it opened a new chapter in the history of the cloud computing pioneer.

ECS Anywhere and EKS Anywhere — two new versions of AWS' managed containers and managed Kubernetes services, both designed for customer data centers — can be used to manage applications running on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Each service "works on any infrastructure," according to the slide, and AWS confirmed to Protocol that they would allow customers to use its software to manage workloads running on other cloud providers.

This is a major step for AWS, which has only grudgingly acknowledged the existence of other cloud providers over the last several years.
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The Information reported in October that AWS was planning to announce a multicloud service during re:Invent.

"AWS realizes that they are not the be-all and end-all in the cloud. They are pushing hard to make sure they can manage services across cloud providers," an anonymous source said.
And according to the ECS Anywhere launch blog post, "the supportability of ECS Anywhere scenarios at the time of general availability may be artificially limited due to other constraints."
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But customers will be able to use the two services "wherever a customer needs them," according to an AWS representative. General availability and more details are expected next year.
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AWS brings ECS, EKS services to the data center, open sources EKS

Today at AWS re:Invent, Andy Jassy talked a lot about how companies are making a big push to the cloud, but today’s container-focused announcements gave a big nod to the data center as the company announced ECS Anywhere and EKS Anywhere, both designed to let you run these services on premises, as well as in the cloud.

The idea behind these moves is to give customers as much flexibility as possible, and recognizing what Microsoft, IBM and Google have been saying, that we live in a multi-cloud and hybrid world and people aren’t moving everything to the cloud right away.
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