Google’s Anthos hybrid cloud platform now runs on bare metal servers. The move targets enterprise workloads running in on-premises data centers or edge locations, and the announcement preempts a ton of new products and capabilities that rival Amazon Web Services (AWS) will undoubtedly rollout at its annual re:Invent, which kicks off today.

Anthos is Google’s fully managed, Kubernetes-based platform that allows users to manage their data and applications in an on-premises environment or across cloud platforms from rivals like AWS and Microsoft. Google announced the platform at its Cloud Next event in 2018, and made it generally available last year.

Google says Anthos on bare metal gives customers more flexibility to run their workloads wherever they want: in Google Cloud, on-premises, in other clouds, or at the edge.

The new Anthos on bare metal runs on top of physical or virtual instances, and it supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1/8.2, CentOS 8.1/8.2, or Ubuntu 18.04/20.04 LTS. Google provides overlay networking and layer 4 to layer 7 load balancing out of the box. However, customers can integrate Anthos with their own load balancer, such as F5 and Citrix, and the platform launched with a ton of other infrastructure, storage, and system integrator partners.

Under the Anthos Ready Partner program, Atos, Dell Technologies, Equinix Metal, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Intel, NetApp, Nutanix, and Nvidia will support the platform for their customers’ infrastructure requirements. Storage partners including Dell Technologies, HPE, NetApp, Portworx, Pure Storage, and Robin.io have qualified their respective CSI drivers. And finally, system integrators including Arctiq, Atos, IGNW, SADA, SoftServe, and World Wide Technology can help customers integrate Anthos on bare metal with existing IT environments.