back to article EKS appeal: 'Just snap install' it, says Canonical as AWS's container game goes hybrid

At its virtual re:Invent conference this week, AWS CEO Andy Jassy announced Amazon EKS and ECS Anywhere, a move Canonical said enables EKS to run "anywhere you can get Ubuntu." Historically, AWS has been cool on the idea of hybrid cloud or multi-cloud, but the company also claims to be customer-driven. Andy Jassy during AWS …

  1. DevOpsTimothyC

    Kubernetes not cheap to run

    > "Kubernetes is not cheap to run," said Singh

    What a great throw away statement completely without context or explanation. While Kubernetes or to be more specific containerization is not virtualisation a large number of places will put K8s onto the tin without the virtualisation layer. In effect they are running containers as very light weight VM's. As soon as you remove the visualization layer from a significant number of servers you have just cut a significant cost out of your IT budget.

    Perhaps they are talking staffing costs. If you're doing K8s at any scale that staffing cost increase is going to be tiny.

    Perhaps he was really meaning "EKS Anywhere will not be cheap to run"

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