AWS Compute Blog
Securing credentials using AWS Secrets Manager with AWS Fargate
This post is contributed by Massimo Re Ferre – Principal Developer Advocate, AWS Container Services. Cloud security at AWS is the highest priority and the work that the Containers team is doing is a testament to that. A month ago, the team introduced an integration between AWS Secrets Manager and AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store with AWS Fargate […]
Enabling DNS resolution for Amazon EKS cluster endpoints
Update – December 2019 Amazon EKS now supports automatic DNS resolution for private cluster endpoints. This feature works automatically for all EKS clusters. You can still implement the solution described below, but this is not required for the majority of use cases. Learn more in the What’s New post or Amazon EKS documentation. This post […]
Anatomy of CVE-2019-5736: A runc container escape!
This post is courtesy of Samuel Karp, Senior Software Development Engineer — Amazon Container Services. On Monday, February 11, CVE-2019-5736 was disclosed. This vulnerability is a flaw in runc, which can be exploited to escape Linux containers launched with Docker, containerd, CRI-O, or any other user of runc. But how does it work? Dive in! […]
A Guide to Locally Testing Containers with Amazon ECS Local Endpoints and Docker Compose
This post is contributed by Wesley Pettit, Software Engineer at AWS. As more companies adopt containers, developers need easy, powerful ways to test their containerized applications locally, before they deploy to AWS. Today, the containers team is releasing the first tool dedicated to this: Amazon ECS Local Container Endpoints. This is part of an ongoing open […]
Building a scalable log solution aggregator with AWS Fargate, Fluentd, and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
February 12, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. This post is contributed by Wesley Pettit, Software Dev Engineer, and a maintainer of the Amazon ECS CLI. […]
Automatically update instances in an Amazon ECS cluster using the AMI ID parameter
UPDATE – Mar 15, 2021 – We’ve updated this post to reflect the guidance that customers should be updating their Amazon ECS clusters with Amazon Linux 2 AMIs. Customers should fully confirm application functionality before moving to Amazon Linux 2. This post is contributed by Adam McLean – Solutions Developer at AWS and Chirill Cucereavii […]
Scheduling GPUs for deep learning tasks on Amazon ECS
This post is contributed by Brent Langston – Sr. Developer Advocate, Amazon Container Services Last week, AWS announced enhanced Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) support for GPU-enabled EC2 instances. This means that now GPUs are first class resources that can be requested in your task definition, and scheduled on your cluster by ECS. Previously, […]
Migrate Wildfly Cluster to Amazon ECS using Service Discovery
This post is courtesy of Vidya Narasimhan, AWS Solutions Architect 1. Overview Java Enterprise Edition has been an important server-side platform for over a decade for developing mission-critical & large-scale applications amongst enterprises. High-availability & fault tolerance for such applications is typically achieved through built-in JEE clustering provided by the platform. JEE clustering represents a […]
Automating rollback of failed Amazon ECS deployments
Contributed by Vinay Nadig, Associate Solutions Architect, AWS. With more and more organizations moving toward Agile development, it’s not uncommon to deploy code to production multiple times a day. With the increased speed of deployments, it’s imperative to have a mechanism in place where you can detect errors and roll back problematic deployments early. In […]
Measuring service chargeback in Amazon ECS
Contributed by Subhrangshu Kumar Sarkar, Sr. Technical Account Manager, and Shiva Kumar Subramanian, Sr. Technical Account Manager Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) users have been asking us for a way to allocate cost to the deployed services in a shared Amazon ECS cluster. This blog post can help customers think through different techniques to allocate […]







