On the face of increasing competition Amazon has declared the adoption of ‘ Kubernetes ’, the open-source technology.
This open-source technology, formulated originally by a Google team, has received support from several enterprises, including Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM. It is said to have many advantages, including the faculty to process an application on any public cloud including Google and Azure Cloud Platform. This makes it easy for Kubernetes to migrate from one cloud vendor to another.
At the Amazon annual conference of Web Services’ (AWS) annual conference, Amazon’s CEO Andy Jassy made the Kubernetes announcement.
As per the industry analysts, Amazon previously offered a service the same as Kubernetes but the Google technology established itself as the standard for such “container” technologies and AWS was left with no other option but offer its support for the open-source technology.
Joe Beda, one of the developers of Kubernetes and the CTO of Heptio, said in a statement, “This is an example of AWS looking outside of their own world in response to customer need.”
It was in the year 2006 that AWS pioneered the cloud computing business, with a service that is considered to be a fast and simple method to get affordable yet high-powered computing services for smaller business. The business not only attracted smaller business, but large enterprises too.
Amit Agarwal, chief product officer of Datadog asserted, “Amazon is still the clear market leader, but the cloud infrastructure market is massive and there’s room for many players.”
