Spectro Cloud Extends Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes for Seamless Edge to Cloud Kubernetes

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 2, 2024--

Spectro Cloud today announced that it is a launch partner for the new Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes feature debuting at AWS re:Invent 2024.

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EKS Hybrid Nodes is a new feature in Amazon EKS, which enables EKS Kubernetes clusters to span from the AWS cloud to on-premises data centers and edge locations.

Spectro Cloud’s Palette Kubernetes management platform helps enterprises to easily provision and manage the complete lifecycle of their hybrid nodes and EKS clusters simply, securely and at scale.

Hybrid use cases are on the rise

Enterprises are looking for hybrid infrastructure to support today’s dynamic, distributed and resource-intensive application workloads. With EKS Hybrid Nodes, organizations have the benefit of operating the Kubernetes control plane in the cloud, with worker nodes stretching across one or more on-prem edge and data center locations. This enables them to:

AWS brings the control plane, Palette manages the rest

As part of today’s launch, Spectro Cloud Palette now fully supports hybrid nodes with EKS, enabling organizations to automate the bootstrapping and onboarding of bare metal servers and VMs as nodes into the hybrid cluster at scale, a task that would otherwise be highly manual.

Palette also provides full lifecycle management for EKS Hybrid Nodes, including challenging common tasks such as upgrades, from a single interface that spans all their Kubernetes resources.

“Hybrid architectures present opportunities across all kinds of use cases, but can also include so many layers of complexity,” said Saad Malik, co-founder and CTO of Spectro Cloud. “With EKS Hybrid Nodes and the power of our Palette platform, we can now truly offer customers an easy to manage, unified EKS environment from edge to cloud.”

Automated fleet management for EKS customers

This announcement builds on the existing relationship between AWS and Spectro Cloud, which earlier this year announced a record five AWS competencies and other recognitions as an AWS partner.

Spectro Cloud Palette is increasingly the choice of AWS customers, who use it to automate how they provision and manage the full lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters in EC2 and EKS, at scale. Customers see Palette as a way to onramp to EKS more quickly, and set themselves up for efficient day-to-day cluster fleet management.

“Hybrid cloud architectures have a huge appeal for many of the enterprise customers I talk with every day, from retail to pharmaceuticals,” said Jared Cheney, Vice President of Services, North America for SoftwareOne. “With Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes and Spectro Palette, I can now offer those customers the best of both worlds: the convenience and scalability of cloud, with the control and performance of on-prem. This is a game-changer for Kubernetes.”

Discover EKS Hybrid Nodes and Palette

Organizations are invited to visit Spectro Cloud at AWS re:Invent to learn more about Palette and the EKS Hybrid Nodes feature integration.

Details of the integration are explored in this technical blog, and customers are invited to get in touch with Spectro Cloud for a demo, or speak to their AWS account representatives to learn more.

About Spectro Cloud

Spectro Cloud uniquely enables organizations to deploy and manage Kubernetes in production, at scale. Its Palette enterprise Kubernetes management platform gives Platform Engineering, IT Operations and DevOps teams effortless control of the full Kubernetes lifecycle. With support for both VM and container workloads, Palette is a truly unified management platform across clouds, data centers, bare metal and edge environments.

Spectro Cloud is a ‘leader’ and ‘outperformer’ in GigaOm’s 2024 Radars for Edge Kubernetes and Managed Kubernetes, and is an AWS Differentiated partner holding designations including ISV Accelerate, Well-Architected Review, Containers Competency, Public Sector Partner and Government Software Competency.

Co-founded in 2019 by CEO Tenry Fu, Vice President of Engineering Gautam Joshi and Chief Technology Officer Saad Malik, Spectro Cloud is backed by Alter Venture Partners, Boldstart Ventures, Firebolt Ventures, Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, NEC and Translink Orchestrating Future Fund, Qualcomm Ventures, Sierra Ventures, Stripes, T-Mobile Ventures, TSG and WestWave Capital.

For more information, visit https://www.spectrocloud.com or follow @spectrocloudinc and @spectrocloudgov on X.

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PARIS (AP) — French organizers of the 2030 Winter Olympics are looking at alternative locations for ice hockey outside of Nice, including in Paris and Lyon, because of a political deadlock involving the Riviera city's new mayor.

Like the Milan Cortina Olympics, the French Alps project has split snow sports in storied mountain resorts and skating in a snow-free city, the Mediterranean resort of Nice.

Nice was to turn the city's soccer stadium, Allianz Arena, into a temporary hockey rink.

But Nice far-right new mayor Eric Ciotti opposes the plan, refusing that the resident football club lose access to its stadium for months because of the Olympics. Ciotti, a former conservative allied with the National Rally of Marine Le Pen, was elected last month.

The 2030 Games organizers said on Tuesday they have worked with officials from Nice and its wider region as well as the French government to find solutions for placing ice hockey within the Olympic hub in Nice. A temporary ice rink, intended as a replacement for the originally planned Allianz Riviera stadium, was studied at other stadiums, mainly for men's hockey matches.

“Technical, scheduling, and financial analyses highlighted the limitations of these options, particularly due to their very high cost and impact,” organizers added.

“With a focus on efficiency and budget optimization, the (organizing committee) has decided to broaden its investigations by examining the use of existing facilities in other major metropolitan areas such as Lyon or Paris, particularly those offering a minimum seating capacity of 10,000,” they added.

Results of their explorations will be presented to the organizing committee's executive board on May 11. The final venues are expected to be confirmed in June when the IOC decides the list of sports and events.

“The analyses carried out are leading us to turn toward existing facilities that are better suited and more sustainable. Several options are being studied to ensure hosting conditions that fully meet our requirements,” said Edgar Grospiron, the former Olympic champion freestyle skier who leads the organizing committee.

The Paris Entertainment Company, which operates Adidas Arena and Accor Arena in the French capital, said last week it submitted a bid to host ice hockey. Both venues were used during the 2024 Paris Summer Games.

French Alps Games organizers said a second competition ice rink for skating is still planned at Nice’s exhibition center, and other ice events scheduled in Nice remain unchanged.

AP Winter Olympics: https://apnews.com/hub/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics

FILE - A cyclist rides past the Adidas Arena, April 18, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla, File)