AWS Infrastructure Provider (Planned)
Purpose: For platform engineers, explains why AWS is outside the GA infrastructure-provider scope and what AWS-backed features still remain supported.
AWS is not a GA infrastructure provider in openCenter 2026.01.0. The documented GA provider surface is openstack, vmware, baremetal, and kind.
What This Means
- openCenter does not document AWS as a supported cluster provisioning target for GA.
- AWS is removed from the user-facing provider help and the infrastructure drift registry.
- The docs intentionally avoid presenting AWS as an installation path alongside the GA providers.
What Still Works
AWS-backed integrations remain supported where GA features already depend on them, including:
- Route53-backed DNS validation flows
- S3-compatible object storage integrations used by platform services
- Credential export and secret-management flows for those integrations
These are service integrations, not an AWS infrastructure-provider contract.
Why AWS Is Out of Scope
The GA line is narrower than the historical schema surface. AWS infrastructure support is excluded because the project does not currently ship:
- a documented, supported provisioning workflow
- GA-aligned drift detection coverage
- a maintained user-facing help and validation story consistent with the GA providers
Recommended Alternatives
| If you need... | Use... |
|---|---|
| Automated private-cloud provisioning | OpenStack |
| Existing enterprise virtualization | VMware |
| Pre-provisioned physical infrastructure | Baremetal |
| Local development or CI clusters | Kind |
Compatibility Note
Historical schema fields and internal compatibility code may still reference AWS. Treat those as compatibility surface or service-integration plumbing, not as a supported GA deployment target.