On Premises - What does it really mean today?

One of the AWS re:Invent 2020 announcements was the launch of ECS Anywhere, and EKS anywhere. In this Containers From The Couch episode we discussed what on-prem means, and the many options that you have for bridging your on-premise needs with the AWS cloud environment.

I partnered up with Adam Keller and Justin Garrison to show off a preview of an ECS anywhere cluster: four Raspberry Pi’s running on my desk, connected to the AWS ECS control plane in the us-east-1 region. Justin used the AWS ECS API to launch container tasks into my mini “on-prem” data center: