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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Distro (Amazon EKS-D)

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Open-source Kubernetes distribution for consistent cloud and on-premises deployment

About Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Distro (Amazon EKS-D)

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Distro (Amazon EKS-D) is an open-source Kubernetes distribution developed by AWS that enables enterprises to deploy Kubernetes clusters consistently across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. It provides the same secure, validated, and tested Kubernetes components that power Amazon EKS, ensuring compatibility and reliability for diverse infrastructure setups including bare-metal servers, VMware vSphere VMs, and Amazon EC2 instances.

Designed for enterprise IT organizations managing complex hybrid cloud environments, EKS-D simplifies Kubernetes operations by delivering reproducible builds, timely security patches, and extended support aligned with Amazon EKS lifecycle policies. This enables enterprises to modernize on-premises applications without the overhead of maintaining upstream Kubernetes updates, while leveraging existing hardware investments. The distribution supports consistent deployment and management of Kubernetes workloads, facilitating operational efficiency and security across multiple environments.

Key Capabilities

✓Reproducible Kubernetes builds aligned with Amazon EKS
✓Deployment on bare-metal, virtual machines, and cloud instances
✓Regular security patches and extended lifecycle support
✓Consistent Kubernetes components across hybrid environments
✓Support for modernization of on-premises applications

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Amazon EC2VMware vSphereAWS Cloud Services

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