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Category: Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
Monitor network performance and traffic across your EKS clusters with Container Network Observability
Amazon EKS introduces Container Network Observability, providing enhanced visibility into Kubernetes workload traffic and performance insights to help teams monitor and troubleshoot microservice environments.
Secure EKS clusters with the new support for Amazon EKS in AWS Backup
AWS Backup now supports Amazon EKS, providing a fully managed, centralized solution to back up and restore Kubernetes clusters and application data without requiring custom scripts or third-party tools.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Quick Suite, EC2 C8i, C8i-flex, and M8a instances, and more (October 13, 2025)
This week I was at the inaugural AWS AI in Practice meetup from the AWS User Group UK. AI-assisted software development and agents were the focus of the evening! Next week I’ll be in Italy for Codemotion (Milan) and an AWS User Group meetup (Rome). My sessions there will be about AI agents and context […]
AWS named as a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms and Container Management
AWS was named as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms in two consecutive years positioned highest on “Ability to Execute”, and for Container Management in three years positioned furthest for “Completeness of Vision”.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Single GPU P5 instances, Advanced Go Driver, Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and more (August 18, 2025)
Let me start this week’s update with something I’m especially excited about – the upcoming BeSA (Become a Solutions Architect) cohort. BeSA is a free mentoring program that I host along with a few other AWS employees on a volunteer basis to help people excel in their cloud careers. Last week, the instructors’ lineup was […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: Kiro, AWS Lambda remote debugging, Amazon ECS blue/green deployments, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and more (July 21, 2025)
I’m writing this as I depart from Ho Chi Minh City back to Singapore. Just realized what a week it’s been, so let me rewind a bit. This week, I tried my first Corne keyboard, wrapped up rehearsals for AWS Summit Jakarta with speakers who are absolutely raising the bar, and visited Vietnam to participate […]
Amazon GuardDuty expands Extended Threat Detection coverage to Amazon EKS clusters
Expanded Amazon GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection for EKS clusters uses proprietary correlation algorithms to identify sophisticated multi-stage attack sequences across Kubernetes audit logs, container runtime behaviors, and AWS API activities through a new critical severity finding type: AttackSequence:EKS/CompromisedCluster.
AWS Weekly Roundup: New AWS Heroes, Amazon Q Developer, EC2 GPU price reduction, and more (June 9, 2025)
The AWS Heroes program recognizes a vibrant, worldwide group of AWS experts whose enthusiasm for knowledge-sharing has a real impact within the community. Heroes go above and beyond to share knowledge in a variety of ways in developer community. We introduce our newest AWS Heroes in the second quarter of 2025. To find and connect […]



