--- title: "Tigera to Support Amazon EKS-Distro" source: "https://www.tigera.io/blog/tigera-to-support-amazon-eks-distro/" --- [Company Blog](https://www.tigera.io/category/company-blog/) # Tigera to Support Amazon EKS-Distro By [John Janetos](https://www.tigera.io/blog/author/john-janetos/) on Dec 01, 2020 • 2 min read Today, we are excited to announce our commitment to support Calico and Calico Enterprise for the [Amazon EKS-Distro](http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-amazon-eks-distro/), a Kubernetes distribution based on and used by Amazon EKS. EKS-D enables you to create reliable and secure Kubernetes clusters using the same versions of Kubernetes and its dependencies deployed by Amazon EKS. We view EKS-D as further confirmation of the central role that Kubernetes plays in today’s IT infrastructure. We are excited to work with Amazon on this initiative to enable EKS-D users with the same robust enterprise networking and network security functionality that you rely on today to secure your EKS cluster deployments. Tigera’s commitment to supporting EKS-D highlights our fundamental design principle of “choice”. Our customers can choose to use Calico and Calico Enterprise with their preferred Kubernetes distribution and use the same solution to operate seamlessly across different Kubernetes distributions, including multi-cloud multi-cluster and hybrid environments. Calico Enterprise, for example, allows you to manage multiple Kubernetes clusters to define, apply, and enforce consistent networking and security policy across all your clusters from a single master cluster. Adding EKS-D clusters, which use the same underlying versions of Kubernetes deployed by Amazon EKS, as an option for our customers fits precisely within a guiding design principle of ours to offer customers choice. Whether it is choice in the data plane – eBPF, IP Tables, or Windows – or choice between managed cloud Kubernetes clusters or hybrid Kubernetes clusters, Tigera is dedicated to providing our customers with multiple options to guarantee their success. Stay tuned for more news and information as we work together with Amazon to offer Calico and Calico Enterprise support to enable robust security and compliance for clusters running EKS-D. Ready to get started? 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