SUSE Rancher for AWS is here – for the first time ever a fully managed Rancher exclusively on the AWS Marketplace

Platform teams choose Amazon EKS for its scale and reliability. But as environments grow from a few to fleets of clusters, spreading across accounts and regions, challenges start to stack up when managing them by hand. Teams feel the weight of governance, access controls, scattered monitoring tools, unmanaged costs, and rising pressure to deliver fast, safely, and efficiently.

These aren’t small problems. They’re the everyday blockers making Kubernetes operations harder than they need to be. To simplify this complexity we built SUSE Rancher for AWS, a fully managed SaaS available only on the AWS Marketplace for easy Amazon EKS management, governance, and cost optimization with your AI SRE guide built on Amazon Q and Amazon Bedrock to close the skills gap. It streamlines EKS operations across AWS regions, tools, and teams into one unified experience with full SUSE Observability lightweight eBPF insights. To make it easier for even the tiniest teams to get started, we made it accessible with a free 30-day trial and simple pricing at $25 per vCPU each month.

Managing multi cluster scale by hand is slow and costly

Platform teams running Amazon EKS at scale often deal with scattered tooling, manual configuration, and rising operational overhead. As clusters grow across accounts and regions, it becomes harder to keep identity, governance, performance monitoring, and cost management consistent. Workflows like Argo CD help with deployment, but they do not solve cluster level access, multi cluster governance, or cluster lifecycle management to align clusters that drift apart. 

SUSE Rancher for AWS elevates Amazon EKS

Bring everything together in one fully managed, intelligent control plane with SUSE Rancher for AWS . It provides centralized visibility, consistent governance, AI assisted operations, and integrated observability for every Amazon EKS cluster. Teams get a single place to manage identity, policy, apps, and performance across their entire EKS footprint.

SUSE Rancher for AWS removes complexity at all levels giving platform teams an intelligent, unified control plane for every Amazon EKS cluster. Instead of stitching tools together, teams get centralized governance, AI SRE guided operations, and full stack visibility in a single SaaS experience built for AWS. The new platform includes an easy to use Apps catalog with one click helm charts deployments. You can also add your own internal applications so developers can deploy them just as easily.

Consistent identity and access control across every cluster

With support for LDAP and Active Directory, you can plug your existing identity providers and apply consistent authentication and authorization across all Amazon EKS clusters. This removes the need to manage separate user stores or access models and gives teams a unified, predictable access experience. By mapping AWS IAM roles to Kubernetes permissions and enforcing least privilege consistently, SUSE Rancher for AWS streamlines multi cluster operations.

SUSE Rancher for AWS connects directly to your EKS environments without requiring you to host or maintain anything. You can import existing clusters instantly with no downtime and gain immediate governance, visibility, and cost optimization.

Close the skills gap with AI guided operations

Managing distributed Kubernetes infrastructure requires constant context switching, troubleshooting, and deciphering logs and events spread across different tools. The SUSE Rancher AI assistant changes that. Powered by Amazon Q and Amazon Bedrock, the assistant acts as an on demand SRE teammate that guides teams through upgrades, configuration decisions, YAML validation, and GitOps workflows.

Ask the integrated AI agent natural language questions and receive clear explanations and recommended next steps. All actions follow strict SSO and RBAC guardrails, ensuring each user only accesses what they are allowed to.

Unified observability for every EKS cluster

SUSE Rancher for AWS includes SUSE Observability so teams can understand the health, performance, and cost of their entire EKS footprint sourced from lightweight eBPF. Metrics, logs, events, and traces come together in a single view with more than forty out of the box dashboards. Time travel diffs let teams compare cluster or workload states across any point in time down to the millisecond, boosting root cause analysis.

SUSE Observability highlights cost inefficiencies and idle workloads while providing right sizing recommendations. Combined with Rancher Manager automation, platform teams get the visibility and insights needed to optimize clusters and reduce waste.

Optimize cloud costs and right size your EKS footprint

Pricing for SUSE Rancher for AWS starts at $25 per month per vCPU and includes the full platform of Rancher Manager, SUSE Observability, and the integrated AI SRE. Spot instance optimization identifies workloads that can safely run on spot instances and schedules them automatically, reducing compute costs by up to ninety percent. Built in t-shirt sizing recommendations help ensure clusters are provisioned efficiently, lowering overall total cost of ownership (TCO).

How SUSE Rancher for AWS fits into the Rancher portfolio

Rancher is fully open source and ideal for developers or teams exploring Kubernetes without lock-in, it’s super easy to develop with Rancher Desktop a tool for building and running containers and a local Kubernetes environment on your desktop. SUSE Rancher Prime builds on Rancher by adding up to five years of enterprise support for Kubernetes distributions like K3s and RKE2, along with enhanced edge management, virtualization, SAP support, developer access, and advanced security and compliance.

Available only on the AWS Marketplace

SUSE Rancher for AWS is delivered exclusively through the AWS Marketplace and can be enabled in minutes. There is no infrastructure to maintain, no servers to upgrade, and no hidden costs. Simply connect your AWS accounts, import your clusters, and unlock a unified operating experience for every EKS environment.

Start a 30-day free trial and discover how SUSE Rancher for AWS streamlines EKS operations, improves visibility and optimizes resource usage with far less effort.