AWS has made its support for Kubernetes official by joining the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), a group whose aim is to simplify software development by creating containerized applications.

NEWS ANALYSIS: AWS is now a member of the open-source effort that Google helped to create with the donation of the Kubernetes container orchestration system.

At VMworld Europe in Barcelona, VMware is announcing updates that further its vision of enabling customers to leverage any cloud, to run applications anywhere and from any device.

VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts will be a fully-managed VMware SDDC as a service powered by VMware Cloud Foundation that includes a comprehensive set of software-defined services for compute, storage ...

Second, VMware Cloud Foundation on EC2 will allow existing VMware customer data centers that are deploying containerized apps with Kubernetes, to utilize AWS-based facilities, including hosting ...

Those rumors are getting a bit more concrete because AWS today joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the open-source home of the Kubernetes project, as a top-level Platinum member.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced it has joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) strengthening its open source hand – and two weeks after Microsoft signed up. The company joins, as ...