Amazon EKS delivers Kubernetes as a managed
service on AWS
Customers including Snap Inc., FICO, GoDaddy,
Honeywell, Intuit, Pearson, Skyscanner, Verizon, and Zendesk are
adopting Amazon EKS to run Kubernetes on AWS
Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company
(NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon
Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS), a fully
managed service that makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale
containerized applications using Kubernetes on AWS. To get started
with Amazon EKS visit: https://aws.amazon.com/eks.
Today, customers are running hundreds of millions of containers
every week on AWS. Many of these customers use Amazon Elastic
Container Service (Amazon ECS), a highly scalable, high-performance
container orchestration service that supports Docker containers and
is integrated with many familiar AWS features like AWS Identity and
Access Management (IAM), security groups, and Elastic Load
Balancing. In addition to Amazon ECS, Kubernetes has become very
popular with AWS customers. A recent survey from the Cloud Native
Computing Foundation found that 57 percent of Kubernetes users run
Kubernetes on AWS, more than any other cloud platform.
Before Amazon EKS, operating Kubernetes clusters with high
availability required specialized expertise and a meaningful amount
of work. Customers needed to provision the Kubernetes management
infrastructure across multiple Availability Zones (AZs), replace
unhealthy infrastructure, and perform updates without causing
downtime. Amazon EKS removes this complexity and delivers an
architecture for production use that automatically runs the
Kubernetes management infrastructure across multiple AZs to
eliminate a single point of failure. Amazon EKS automatically
detects and replaces unhealthy nodes, and it patches and performs
on-demand version upgrades for the management infrastructure. This
makes the Kubernetes infrastructure managed by Amazon EKS
resilient, even to the loss of an entire AZ.
“More customers run containers on AWS and Kubernetes on AWS than
anywhere else,” said Deepak Singh, Director of AWS Compute
Services. “Prior to Amazon EKS, customers either had to do
considerable work to architect a highly fault-tolerant way to run
Kubernetes, or just accept a lack of resiliency. With the launch of
Amazon EKS, customers no longer have to live with either of those
trade-offs, and they get a highly available, fault-tolerant,
managed Kubernetes service. It’s no wonder so many of our customers
are excited.”
Amazon EKS takes away the pain of managing cluster operations
and administration tasks, ensuring the yes, management
infrastructure is properly provisioned, secure, highly available,
backed up, and updated. Amazon EKS is certified Kubernetes
conformant, so customers can run their existing Kubernetes
applications without any code changes using existing Kubernetes
tooling.
Axway, Conde Nast Taiwan, CyberAgent, EBSCO, FICO, FireEye,
GoDaddy, Honeywell Movilizer, Insikt, Intuit, LogicWorks, Mercari,
Numerate, Otonomo, Pearson, RetailMeNot, Schibsted, Skyscanner,
Snap Inc., Teradata, Time Inc. UK, Trainline, Verisk, Verizon, and
Zendesk are just a few of the customers who are adopting Amazon EKS
to run Kubernetes on AWS.
Intuit Inc. is a business and financial software company that
develops and sells financial, accounting, and tax preparation
software and related services for small businesses, accountants,
and individuals. “Intuit helps millions of customers improve their
financial lives,” said Pratik Wadher, VP, Intuit. “Amazon EKS lets
us combine the flexibility of Kubernetes with the scalability,
reliability, and security of AWS. We plan to leverage Amazon EKS as
a key component of our containers strategy so we can continue to
innovate and power prosperity for our customers.”
Pearson is an education publishing and assessment service for
schools, corporations, and students that’s seen a rapid growth in
adoption in the past year. “The opportunity to leverage Amazon EKS
allows us to hugely simplify the amount of automation and
infrastructure we need to directly manage,” said Chris Jackson,
Director Cloud Platforms, Pearson. “This, in turn, gives us more
time to focus on a fantastic developer experience for our internal
teams, which will ultimately allow them to spend more time building
world class digital education services. Leveraging the rate of new
developments in AWS helps my team to build like a start-up even
though we are part of a major enterprise business.”
Snap Inc. is a camera company focused on empowering people to
express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and
have fun together. 191 million people use Snapchat every
day — to Snap with family and friends, watch Stories, and
explore content from top publishers and around the world. "Snapchat
serves millions of people around the world every day, and we're
thrilled to now leverage Amazon EKS as a core compute
service that can meet our needs now, as well as upcoming plans to
host several critical workloads in the coming months,” said Alex
Strand, Senior Director of Engineering, Snap Inc.
EBSCO Information Services is the leading provider of research
databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, ebooks, and
discovery services for academic and public libraries. "We are very
excited to join the Amazon EKS community, where we can take
advantage of the ever-growing Kubernetes ecosystem while AWS
absorbs the complexity,” said Tom Mitchell, Vice President of
Architecture, EBSCO. “Having a unified architecture for both our
on-premises and public cloud infrastructure allows us to evolve our
products and migrate our workloads to AWS methodically over time,
without negatively impacting our customers."
INSIKT is a Fintech company that makes small, fairly-priced
loans to lower income customers with subprime credit or no credit
history. “Using Kubernetes, INSIKT has transformed our cloud-based
lending and financial services platform in just a few months by
giving our teams the ability to rapidly build and deploy new
microservices,” said Randy Wong, CTO, INSIKT. “Amazon EKS will
enable our next phase of growth by lowering infrastructure costs
and reducing operational overhead, so we can continue to rapidly
innovate, and deliver a best-in-class experience to our
customers.”
Honeywell International Inc. is a multinational company that
produces a variety of commercial and consumer products, engineering
services, and aerospace systems for a wide variety of customers.
Honeywell Movilizer is a cloud application that connects and
orchestrates thousands of field operations teams at large
manufacturing and services companies. “Migrating Movilizer’s
architecture from running directly on servers into containers
managed by Kubernetes has given us the ability to lower our
operational costs and quickly scale into the cloud, said Vassil
Hristov, CTO, Honeywell Movilizer. “Based on our experience, Amazon
EKS is capable of supporting this complex, critical application and
we plan to move more of our workloads to Amazon EKS. This will
allow us to lower our operational costs while getting the
reliability, security, and scalability of AWS.”
Trainline is the United Kingdom’s leading online train ticketing
retailer. "At Trainline we’re big believers in containers and use
them to process more than 7 billion messages per year in our data
platform,” said David Stanley, Director of Reliability Service,
Trainline. “For container orchestration, Kubernetes is the clear
leader but, as with any DIY platform, requires a significant
investment in engineering time that we would rather spend on
improving the customer experience. We see Amazon EKS as unlocking
the benefits of container orchestration without having to manage
any heavy-lifting. Being part of the preview has allowed our
platform engineering team to get hands on with the technology,
directly work with the team behind EKS, and provide
input.”
In addition to developing Amazon EKS, AWS actively works with
the Kubernetes community and the Amazon Partner Network to
contribute to projects and build integrations that help all
Kubernetes users take advantage of AWS services and features. These
partners include Alcide, Aqua Security, Canonical, Cisco
AppDynamics, Cloudbees, Cloudera, Codefresh, Confluent, Couchbase,
DataDog, GitLab, HashiCorp, Hasura, Heptio, JFrog, Mapr, MongoDB,
New Relic, Portworx, Rancher, SignalFX, Solarwinds, SumoLogic,
SUSE, Tigera, Trend Micro, Twistlock, and Weaveworks.
Heptio builds open source software projects designed to make
Kubernetes easier to use when managing containerized applications,
and also offers professional support services to the Kubernetes
community. "Heptio is delighted to welcome AWS to the Kubernetes
community with the GA release of EKS,” said Joe Beda, Founder,
Heptio. “We are heartened by their commitment to delivering a
simple but robust upstream managed Kubernetes service for
enterprises. We see Amazon EKS as an important tool for enterprises
planning their cloud native journey and are looking forward to
working with AWS to help organizations adopt and integrate this
critical service."
Tigera is a San Francisco-based startup that helps businesses
connect and secure their container-based applications. “We have
been working closely with the Amazon Web Services team to bring
production grade network security to Amazon EKS,” said Ratan
Tipirneni, CEO, Tigera. “Our enterprise customers see Amazon EKS as
the easiest and fastest way to run Kubernetes at scale on AWS.
Tigera and EKS together provide those customers the network
security they need to run their applications in production.”
HashiCorp is an open source software company that enables
organizations to have consistent workflows and to provision,
secure, connect, and run any infrastructure for any application.
“HashiCorp Terraform and Vault are broadly used both on AWS and
with the Kubernetes community today," said Mitchell Hashimoto,
founder and co-CTO of HashiCorp. “We see AWS EKS as a smart
option for enterprises with large-scale, complex microservices
environments and are pleased to have worked closely with AWS
to provide day-zero support for AWS EKS in Terraform. This allows
Terraform users to bring Kubernetes on AWS into their IT
infrastructure while following the standard provisioning
workflows that the operations teams already know.”
Weaveworks is a software company that provides container
management and microservices in a simple, portable and resilient
way to its customers. “Amazon created cloud computing as we know
it, and Kubernetes is critical to the future of the cloud. The
combination is obvious and compelling," said Alexis Richardson,
CEO, Weaveworks. “Amazon EKS combined with Weave Cloud’s
Prometheus metrics, analytics and management, which simplifies
containers deployment and monitoring for our customers, is the
fastest route to production grade Kubernetes applications in
the cloud. Finally, customers have a single toolchain for
deploying and operating applications across any mix of
on-premise servers and the Amazon cloud."
Amazon EKS is available today for all AWS customers in the US
East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) AWS regions.
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