Recently AWS announced the general availability of Amazon ECS Anywhere, a new capability in Amazon ECS that enables customers to quickly run and manage container-based applications on-premises, including virtual machines (VMs), bare-metal servers, and other customer-managed infrastructure.

Since Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) release in 2014, the company provided customers with options to run tasks on the compute services outside of an AWS region, such as AWS Wavelength and AWS Outposts. However, due to regulatory, latency, and data residency requirements, there is also a need to run workloads on-premise. With Amazon ECS Anywhere, customers now have that option. The fully-managed container orchestration service allows customers to run, scale, and secure Docker container applications on any customer-managed infrastructure in addition to all AWS Regions, AWS Local Zones, and AWS hybrid infrastructure deployments (e.g., AWS Outposts and AWS Wavelength).

In a press release on the Amazon ECS Anywhere, Deepak Singh, VP, compute services at AWS, said:

Customers have told us that while they need to run containers on their own infrastructure, they don’t want the hassle of operating their own cluster management software. They love the simplicity of Amazon ECS, the fact that it just works, and want the same reliability, scalability, and security of Amazon ECS wherever they run their applications. With Amazon ECS Anywhere, we are proud to provide our customers exactly what they’ve asked for—a single service and control plane to manage their container deployments across AWS Regions, AWS Outposts, AWS Wavelength, AWS Local Zones, and customer-owned infrastructure, both in their data centers and at edge locations. Nothing else in the industry does that.

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