No Kubernetes Needed: Amazon ECS Anywhere
The hybrid and the multicloud market is heating up. Hyperscalers such as Microsoft and Google are extending their infrastructure services to on-prem data centers and other public clouds. Platform vendors such as?Red Hat ?and?VMware ?have container management services that can run in diverse environments including data centers, private cloud, and public cloud.
What’s common in multicloud platforms such as Google Anthos, Microsoft Azure Arc, Red Hat OpenShift and Advanced Cluster Manager, and VMware Tanzu? The answer is obvious — it’s Kubernetes. Almost all the hybrid and multicloud platforms are based on Kubernetes.
Amazon Web Services , one of the first and the leading public cloud providers, has taken a different approach to deliver hybrid and multicloud platforms. Instead of Kubernetes, AWS chose Elastic Container Service (ECS) as the vehicle to deliver hybrid cloud capabilities to customers.
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3 年Very interesting, however what about EKS-DISTRO which can be run at on-premise? https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/amazon-eks-distro-eks-d-kubernetes-distribution-used-gokul-chandra
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3 年if you have to ask whether you should run straight containers/ecs over k8s/eks then you either don't understand your tech stack or just want to use k8s b/c you heard it's the new hot tool, and either way I highly advise you have a second look over your reasoning for choosing a solution. I love k8s, I really do, I've built a good portion of my career around it. But it introduces a massive amount of complexity to a system that you *really* need to make sure your business is actually positioned to take advantage of what k8s can do before deciding to take on that added complexity
Distinguished Engineer, Cloud & AI Architect @ UBS | Ex-Microsoft
3 年There are many container workloads which doesn’t need to be on Kubernetes. ECS anywhere offers a good alternative to managing standalone Docker instances onprem.
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3 年This is good !!