Become an InsiderAmazon Web Services will now allow customers to run its Elastic Container Service or Elastic Kubernetes Service — a popular way for developers to manage cloud infrastructure — in private data centers or any other infrastructure.
Analysts say that while AWS may be warming up to this so-called multicloud strategy, they don't expect AWS to double down on it anytime soon. As the names suggest, ECS Anywhere and EKS Anywhere allow users to deploy those services just about anywhere — from private data centers to a miniature Raspberry Pi computer, as long as it has internet access and a connection to AWS, they can be downloaded and run.
"There is no technical restriction for them in doing that," says Deepak Singh, director of compute services at AWS.In an interview, Singh describes ECS Anywhere and EKS Anywhere as a response to customer need, rather than a major philosophical shift at AWS. He says that customers wanted better ways to run AWS capabilities from their own data centers, for instances when regulatory standards or other roadblocks mean that they can't bring data to the cloud.
Would be nice to warm up...