Today at AWS re: Invent, Andy Jassy spoke at length about how companies are giving a strong boost to the cloud, but today's container-centric announcements made a big nod to the data center when the company announced ECS Anywhere and EKS Anywhere, both designed to let you run these services on-premises and in the cloud.
These two services, ECS for generalized container orchestration and EKS for the one focused on Kubernetes will allow customers to use these popular AWS services locally. Jassy said some customers still want the same tools they use in the cloud on-premise and this is designed to provide them with it.
Speaking of ECS, he said: "I still have several of my containers that I need to run on-premise while I'm transitioning to the cloud and [these] people really want it to have the same management and deployment mechanisms they have in AWS on-premises too, and customers have asked us to work on that. And so I'm thrilled to announce two new things to you. The first is the launch or announcement of Amazon ECS everywhere, which allows you to run ECS and your data center, "he told the audience of re: Invent.
It said it gives you the same AWS APIs and cluster configuration management parts. It will work the same for EKS, allowing this single management methodology no matter where you use the service.
While it was there, the company also announced that it is EKS open source, its own managed Kubernetes service. The idea behind these moves is to offer customers as much flexibility as possible and recognize what Microsoft, IBM and Google have said, that we live in a multi-cloud and hybrid world and people are not immediately moving everything to the cloud.
In fact, in its opening, Jassy said that right now in 2020, only 4% of global IT spending is on the cloud. This means that you need to make money by selling on-site services, and that's what these services will do.