Cloud Computing: Amazon Releases Its EC2 Container Service And Takes A Swipe At Google
April 9, 2015
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Ben Kepes.
At the AWS Summit being held in San Francisco today, AWS has just announced that its EC2 container service, a service that developers use to run applications within Linux Containers, is now generally avaialble. Readers will recall that AWS announced the beta of this product late last year. The increasing adoption of, and interest in, containers has led them to accelerate the availability of this product.
It can also be seen as a counter move to Google’s increasingly obvious intentions with Kubernetes. Google launched the Kubernetes initiative as an open source Docker container orchestration tool, recently it announced a deep partnership with competing container company CoreOS to tie Kubernetes into CoreOS’s solutions…
As I mentioned at the time, this was the beginning of container polarization with Google and CoreOS on one side and Docker and its ecosystem on the other. Paul Miller, a big data and cloud computing analyst, saw this as less black and white than I did saying that:…
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