AWS Service Operator Alternatives (September 2025)

Learn how customers run Kubernetes on Amazon EKS with detailed case studies and videos.

AWS App Runner helps you deploy and scale from your source code or container image to a secure web application on AWS.

An open source Kubernetes Platform to manage enterprise-grade Kubernetes across hybrid cloud, multi-cloud and edge. Get started for free!

AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is an open-source software development framework used to model and provision your cloud application resources with familiar programming languages.

Production-Grade Container Orchestration

Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that simplifies setup and operation of open-source message brokers on AWS.

The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) provides a unified tool to manage your AWS services directly from the command line.

Amazon SQS fully managed message queuing makes it easy to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.

AWS CloudFormation is an infrastructure as code (IaC) service that allows you to easily model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources.

Driven by the need for greater productivity, lower costs, and more recently being able to scale a remote workforce, organizations around the world are moving their IT workloads to the cloud. Planning a move to the cloud requires upfront pre-migration planning; this is as important as the implementation itself. But it can be daunting to know where to start or what needs to be in place for a successful migration. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool (CART) can help provide insight into your level of readiness and what you can do to improve it.

Unlock fast and scalable search, monitoring, and analysis for log analytics and website search by deploying and running OpenSearch and ALv2 Elasticsearch.

Kubernetes message broker and message queue platform. An open-source project providing the most efficient way to connect microservices.

AWS CodeCommit is a managed source control repository that makes it easier for teams to securely collaborate on code with contributions encrypted in transit and at rest.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) provides a fully managed container service solution that’s easy to use, scalable, secure, and reliable.

Open source desktop application that provides Kubernetes, Container Management, bundled utilities on the desktop

AWS IoT Greengrass is an open-source edge runtime and cloud service that helps you build, deploy, and manage intelligent device software.

Amazon MSK is a fully managed, secure, and highly available Apache Kafka service that makes it easy to ingest and process streaming data in real time at a low cost.

Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. Free to join, pay only for what you use.

AWS CodePipeline automates the build, test, and deploy phases of your release process each time a code change occurs.

AWS Ground Station is a fully managed service that lets you control satellite communications, downlink and process satellite data, and scale your satellite operations quickly, easily and cost-effectively without having to worry about building or managing your own ground station infrastructure

Build your AWS Cloud Skills with AWS Training and Certification. Learn AWS online with free digital training, in-person classroom training, virtual classroom training, and private on-site and virtual training. Learn more!

Introduces AWS OpsWorks.

Helm - The Kubernetes Package Manager.

AWS Deep Learning Containers are Docker images preinstalled with deep learning frameworks that make it easy to deploy custom machine learning environments.

Discover, deploy, and publish serverless applications for common use cases including Alexa Skills, chatbots, IoT, web and mobile back-ends, data processing, and more.

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is a fully managed Docker container registry that makes it easy to store, share, and deploy container images.

Introducing AWS Transfer for SFTP, a fully managed SFTP service for Amazon S3. AWS Transfer for SFTP enables you to easily move your file transfer workloads that use the Secure Shell File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) to AWS without needing to modify your applications or manage any SFTP servers.

AWS CodeDeploy makes it easier for you to rapidly release new features, avoid downtime during application deployment, and handle the complexity of updating your applications.

Canonical Kubernetes enterprise solutions build up from Ubuntu OS to hybrid multi-cloud container orchestration clouds, edge and IoT, managed Kubernetes and enterprise support packages.

A Kubernetes-native open-source framework for building continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to build, test, and deploy software.

AWS Service Catalog helps you create and manage IaC templates approved for use on AWS so anyone can discover approved, self-service cloud resources.

Amazon GameSparks is a fully managed game backend service that manages and scales your cloud infrastructure.

Run AWS infrastructure and services on premises for a truly consistent hybrid experience.

Kubeflow makes deployment of ML Workflows on Kubernetes straightforward and automated

Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service built for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), IT managers, and product owners.

Reliably lighten the Kubernetes Troubleshooting and Monitoring Workload for your DevOps and Developers.

Use Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) to build with Scalable Blockchain Network at scale without any specialized infrastructure investment.

AWS Batch allows developers, scientists, and engineers to efficiently process hundreds of thousands of batch and machine learning computing jobs on AWS.

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Build and test code with automatic scaling, and pay only for the build minutes you use.

A collaborative Kubernetes-native development solution that delivers OpenShift workspaces and in-browser IDE for rapid cloud application development.

AWS Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service. With Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, and it maintains the updated location of these dynamically changing resources. This increases your application availability because your web service always discover the most up-to-date locations of its resources.

Rancher, the open-source multi-cluster orchestration platform, lets operations teams deploy, manage and secure enterprise Kubernetes. Request a demo!

Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus that ingests data from your own apps, SaaS apps, and AWS services and routes that data to targets.

Easily manage multiple Kubernetes clusters with the automation power of the Kubermatic platform. Scale your business with reliability.

AWS App Mesh is an application networking service mesh that lets you more easily monitor and control communications across services.

MicroK8s is the simplest production-grade conformant K8s. Lightweight and focused. Single command install on Linux, Windows and macOS. Made for devOps, great for edge, appliances and IoT. Full high availability Kubernetes with autonomous clusters and distributed storage.

Amazon SimpleDB is a simple database storage solution that allows developers to simply store & query data items via web services requests, saving time.

Open-source self-hosted alternative to Vercel, Netlify, Raiway.app, Render or Heroku running on Kubernetes clusters.

A fully-managed, cloud-native directory from Amazon Web Services (AWS)

The easiest way to build and scale generative AI applications with foundation models.

Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) provides enterprise-level high-performance and flexible management of Kubernetes containerized applications throughout the application lifecycle.

Traefik Mesh is an open source service mesh, easy to configure that allows visibility and management of the traffic flows inside any Kubernetes cluster.

Amazon DevOps Guru is a machine learning service designed to detect abnormal operating patterns so you can identify issues before they impact your customers.

Build ClickHouse-based analytics applications that detect, analyze, and leverage real-time insights for any use case in any environment.

Build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models for any use case with fully managed infrastructure, tools, and workflows.

Devtron enables swift app containerization, seamless Kubernetes deployment, and peak performance optimization – simplify your app management today!

Kubernetes for Prod, Tilt for Dev

Software operations are easier with Juju - the open source orchestration engine for software operators. Deploy, integrate, scale and manage your applications' lifecycle at any scale, on any infrastructure with Juju and charms.

Discover the tools that you need to simplify and accelerate your migration and modernization with AWS Migration Hub. Learn more about key benefits and tools.

Optimize your cloud cost, performance and availability while saving time with AI. Use Sedai to optimize compute, storage and data including Kubernetes, AWS Lambda, AWS ECS, AWS EC2, Azure VMs, AWS S3, AWS EBS, Google Dataflow and more. Sedai's Autonomous Cloud Management Platform works across AWS, Azure, GCP and On-Premises and can run in three modes: Datapilot, Copilot and Autopilot.

flannel is a network fabric for containers, designed for Kubernetes - flannel-io/flannel

D2iQ makes it easier to build and run Kubernetes at scale, reducing time to market from months to days.

Convert your Docker Compose file to Kubernetes or OpenShift

A service mesh for observability, security in depth, and management that speeds deployment cycles.

AWS Local Zones are a type of AWS infrastructure deployment that make it possible to run low latency applications closer to end users or on-premises installations in a specific geography.

Fully managed Lustre file system integrated with S3 for workloads that require fast access to compute and high throughput such as high performance computing (HPC), media rendering, and machine learning (ML) training data sets.

Amazon SNS is a managed messaging service for communication, allowing messaging between decoupled microservices applications or directly to users with SMS texts, mobile push, and email.

AWS Well-Architected Tool is a service in the cloud that provides a consistent process for measuring your architecture using AWS best practices.

Accelerate application development with 100% serverless GraphQL and Pub/Sub APIs. Get 250,000 API requests free per month for 12 months.

Amazon EMR is a cloud big data platform for running large-scale distributed data processing jobs, interactive SQL queries, and machine learning applications using open-source analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and Presto.

Amazon AppFlow is an integration service that enables you to securely transfer data between SaaS applications and AWS services without code.

FreeRTOS is an open source, real-time operating system for microcontrollers and microprocessors that makes small, low-power devices easier to program, deploy, and secure.

Amazon API Gateway helps you build HTTP, REST, and WebSocket APIs with a fully managed service that makes it easy to create, publish, maintain, manage, monitor, and secure APIs.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a fully managed, open-source cloud database service that allows you to easily operate and scale your relational database of choice, including Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and MySQL.

Learn about AWS Inferentia an ML chip presented by AWS.

AWS Cloud9 is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you write, run, and debug your code with just a browser.

Taikun CloudWorks is an Advanced Platform for Delivering Kubernetes & Applications Seamlessly Across Multi Cloud Environments

Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of the Open Java Development Kit (OpenJDK). Corretto comes with no-cost long-term support. Amazon runs Corretto internally on thousands of production services and Corretto is certified as compatible with the Java SE standard.

Amazon Inspector is an automated vulnerability management service that continually scans AWS workloads for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure.

Linkerd adds critical security, observability, and reliability to your Kubernetes stack, without any code changes.

Documentation, guides and support for Jenkins X

AWS Config is a config tool that helps you assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations and relationships of your resources.

Manage virtual machines and Kubernetes – on-premises, at the edge, or air-gapped – with our flexible platform that reduces ops cost and accelerates delivery of revenue-generating apps.

A secure cloud management platform for automation, orchestration, cost and usage monitoring of public and private clouds, hypervisors and container hosts. Provides multi-cloud RBAC. Enables self service provisioning. Cost analytics and cloud spending optimization

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service enables the orchestration of intelligent scheduling, self-healing and horizontal scaling.

Red Hat OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka makes it easier to create, discover and connect to real-time data streams regardless of where they exist.

Amazon SWF is a cloud process flow management application that gives developers tools to coordinate applications across multiple machines.

Red Hat Runtimes includes a collection of cloud-native runtimes for developing Java or JavaScript applications on OpenShift.

AWS Deep Learning AMIs provides ML practitioners with curated, secure frameworks, dependencies, and tools to accelerate and scale deep learning in the cloud.

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a fully managed, serverless data streaming service that stores and ingests various streaming data in real time at any scale.

AWS certified developer. Custom nodejs developer. Custom python programmer. Snowflake and Redshift developer.

Argonaut automates deployments of infrastructure and applications to your cloud account. Autogenerate and collaborate with your team on Terraform, CI/CD and App Deployment Configs in an instant.

Learn how AWS Key Management Service (KMS) provides you with logs of key usage to help you meet your regulatory and compliance needs.

An open source community working under The Linux Foundation to address storage integration challenges in scale-out cloud native environments. Its vision is to connect siloed data solutions to build a self governed and intelligent data platform.

Custom software solutions: web applications, backend systems & enterprise applications. Scala, Java, Big Data, Machine Learning, Blockchain.

AWS IoT lets you securely connect and manage devices, collect and analyze device data, and build and deploy solutions that drive greater business value.

Bunnyshell is an Environment as a Service platform that enables developers to instantly spin up dev environments for any task on Kubernetes and develop remotely.

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a managed Kubernetes service with hardened security and fast delivery. Deploy and manage containerized applications with AKS.