Containers

Introduction Many applications built today or modernized from monoliths are done so using microservice architectures. The microservice architecture makes applications easier to scale and faster to develop, which enables innovation and accelerating time-to-market for new features. In addition, microservices also provide lifecycle autonomy enabling applications to have independent build and deploy processes, which provides technological […]

Introduction We are introducing ECS Blueprints for AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) that makes it easier and faster to build container workloads for the Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). ECS Blueprints is a collection of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) open-source modules that help you configure and deploy container workloads on top of Amazon […]

Introduction With Amazon ECS Anywhere, you can run and manage containers on any customer-managed infrastructure using the same cloud-based, fully managed, and highly scalable container orchestration service you use in AWS today. Amazon ECS Anywhere provides support for registering an external instance, such as an on-premises server or virtual machine (VM), to your Amazon ECS […]

AWS Fargate, a serverless compute engine for containerized workloads, now supports lazy loading container images that have been indexed using Seekable OCI (SOCI). Lazy loading container images with SOCI reduces the time taken to launch Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Tasks on AWS Fargate. Donnie Prakoso’s launch post provides details on how to get […]

UPDATE: On July 17th 2023, AWS launched support for Windows authentication with gMSA on non-domain-joined (domainless) Amazon ECS Linux container instances. This blog post has been updated to cover both modes, making domainless mode the default. Introduction Today, we are announcing the availability of Credentials Fetcher integration with Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). This […]

Introduction Kubecost provides real-time cost visibility and insights for teams using Kubernetes. It has an intuitive dashboard to help you understand and analyze the costs of running your workloads in a Kubernetes cluster. Kubecost is built on OpenCost, which was recently accepted as a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox project, and is actively supported […]

Introduction In November 2021, AWS introduced Karpenter, an open-source high-performance Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler licensed under the Apache License 2.0. Karpenter helps improve your application availability and cluster efficiency by rapidly launching right-sized compute resources in response to changing application load. Since its release, we’ve been seeing an increase in customers migrating from Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler […]

Introduction Modern applications run on a variety of compute platforms in AWS including serverless services such as AWS Lambda, AWS App Runner, and AWS Fargate. Organizations today are often required to support architectures using a variety of these AWS services, each offering unique runtime characteristics, such as concurrency and scaling, which can be purpose fit […]

Introduction We are happy to announce new features in AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) that allow you to inject a variety faults into workloads running in Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). This blog shows how to use new AWS FIS actions with Amazon ECS. AWS Fault Injection […]

Introduction Chaos engineering is the discipline of verifying the resilience of your application architecture to identify unforeseen risks, address weaknesses, and ultimately improve confidence in the reliability of your application. In this blog, we demonstrate how to automate running chaos engineering experiments using the new features in AWS Fault Injection Simulator (AWS FIS) to target […]