Google Cloud Anthos componentsĪnthos is the natural evolution of the Cloud Services Platform the vendor was building before 2019. And operators can track cluster telemetry and log information from a single console. Similarly, Anthos provides operational consistency across hybrid and public clouds, with the ability to apply common configurations across infrastructures, as well as custom security policies linked to certain workloads and namespaces, regardless of where those workloads are running. The Google Cloud Anthos console showing Azure and AWS assetsīy providing a single platform for the management of all Kubernetes workloads, Google Cloud Anthos allows customers to focus their skills on a single technology, rather than relying on certified experts in a multitude of proprietary cloud technologies. Google eventually announced Anthos support for AWS (as of April 2020) and Anthos support for Azure (as of December 2021), with the release of the Anthos Multi-Cloud API, fulfilling its original promise of true hybrid and multicloud operability. That crucial multicloud support took some time to achieve. Speaking at Google Cloud Next in San Francisco in 2019, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the idea behind Anthos is to allow developers to “write once and run anywhere”-a promise to simplify the development, deployment, and operation of containerized applications across hybrid and multiple public clouds by bridging incompatible cloud architectures. Google Cloud launched the Anthos platform in April 2019, promising customers a way to run Kubernetes workloads on-premises, in the Google Cloud, and, crucially, in other major public clouds including Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.