The introduction of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Hybrid Nodes by AWS is a game-changer for organizations striving to unify cloud and on-premises Kubernetes operations. Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes provide a consistent Kubernetes experience across environments, simplifying and standardizing container application delivery practices for users. Sysdig empowers enterprises to secure their hybrid deployments, providing the tools needed to gain visibility, monitor security posture and compliance, prioritize container vulnerabilities, and detect threats in real-time.
Understanding Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes
Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes extend the flexibility of Amazon EKS to on-premises and edge infrastructures, ensuring customers can maintain consistent tooling and APIs. This capability is crucial for hybrid-cloud strategies, allowing seamless transitions and efficient management of workloads across diverse environments.
Sysdig’s Role in Securing EKS Hybrid Nodes
The Sysdig cloud security platform integrates seamlessly with Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes to deliver comprehensive container security across hybrid deployments. This complements the Amazon EKS support previously provided by Sysdig, including our support for EKS-Anywhere and EKS-A on Bare Metal, between others.
Visibility Across Environments
Sysdig’s deep visibility into containerized workloads ensures security teams can monitor and detect vulnerabilities and runtime threats regardless of the deployment location. This capability aligns with the hybrid nature of EKS Hybrid Nodes, enabling consistent security controls.
Runtime Security and Threat Detection
With Sysdig’s Falco-based runtime protection, organizations can detect and respond to anomalous activity in real time. Cloud detection and response helps cloud, DevOps, and security teams protect hybrid applications from potential threats during runtime.
Compliance and Policy Enforcement
Sysdig identifies misconfigurations and ensures compliance with security standards by providing both out-of-the-box and customizable benchmarks for hybrid Kubernetes environments. This functionality, including Kubernetes Security Posture Management (KSPM), helps meet governance requirements across on-premises and cloud deployments. This is especially critical in hybrid models, where achieving a uniform security posture helps simplify management and saves time.
Vulnerability Management
Sysdig’s vulnerability management solution identifies risks in container images and EC2 host instances, offering prioritized recommendations to reduce alert noise and help developers mitigate potential exploits. Our unique ability to identify in-use vulnerabilities using runtime insights is key to saving precious time by addressing real risk.
By leveraging Sysdig with Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes, customers gain:
- Operational Consistency: Unified tooling and security workflows streamline management across environments.
- Accelerated Time-to-Value: Prebuilt integrations and automation reduce the setup and operational overhead of securing hybrid workloads.
- Confidence in Compliance: Automated checks and reports ensure continuous adherence to regulatory standards.
- Faster Response: Understanding risks in real time accelerates threat awareness and incident response.
Getting Started with Sysdig Secure for EKS Hybrid Nodes
Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes users can begin their journey by integrating Sysdig Secure into their existing EKS setup. Key steps include:
Deployment: Deploy security agents using the EKS-Anywhere Add-on developed by Sysdig to enable in-depth real-time detection, runtime vulnerability scanning, and posture insights
Policy Configuration: Apply prebuilt or customized policies to enforce the security and compliance standards that are important to your business.
Risk Monitoring: Use Sysdig’s intuitive UI to gain insights into risk priorities and active threats – including leveraging Sysdig SageTM AI assistance to quickly understand and identify how to respond to security issues.
Secure and Accelerate Innovation with Sysdig and AWS
The availability of Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes is a key advancement for AWS users who can now design their container-based applications and infrastructure to run across on-premises, edge, and cloud environments. Sysdig’s real-time and hybrid cloud security capabilities align perfectly with AWS’s vision. Our collaboration underscores the importance of integrating advanced security solutions into hybrid cloud strategies, ensuring enterprises can innovate without compromising security.
For more insights into security best practices for Kubernetes and containers, check out our Kubernetes Security Guide.