# Part 1 on AWS: Rolling your own servers with K8s

DevFeed: [Part 1 on AWS: Rolling your own servers with K8s](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/part-1-on-aws-rolling-your-own-servers-with-k8s-29588.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://goteleport.com/blog/aws-vs-colocation/>)

Author: ev@goteleport.com (Ev Kontsevoy)

Published: 2019-05-06T23:39:34Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Teleport](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/teleport.md>)

Topics: [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>), [datacenter](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datacenter.md>), [Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/latency.md>)

Tags: [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [data-center](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-center.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [k8s](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/k8s.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [servers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/servers.md>)

## AI overview

Part one of a three-part series examines why organizations might move workloads from AWS to self-managed servers in an enterprise server room or colocation facility. It discusses potential cost, regulatory, hardware, latency, and customer-location considerations, and introduces Kubernetes as a way to improve infrastructure utilization when running multiple workloads.

## Source excerpt

This is part one of a three-part series on considerations that companies will want to address if they decide to build their own cloud environment.