Executive summary
This whitepaper addresses current challenges with modernizing on-premises systems with
Kubernetes. Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud services offer several advantages;
however, some customers may need to run select workloads on premises for a number of
reasons, including low latency and data locality, both of which are covered in depth in this
whitepaper. To help address these challenges, we present a set of solutions powered by Amazon
Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), specifically Amazon EKS Anywhere, which is a solution
to run Kubernetes on premises that allows for perpetual on-premises container and infrastructure
management—with AWS-supported tooling and opinionated packaging—as a vehicle for
migrating to the cloud.
This whitepaper is intended to help accelerate organizations' decision makers' evaluation
processes for on-premises solutions that best fit business requirements.
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