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Amazon ECS Events in February

Here are some upcoming events for Amazon ECS this month: Container World: Abby Fuller, senior AWS technical evangelist, will be speaking about Amazon ECS at Container World on Feb 21-23. Check out her schedule. Microservices Day @ AWS NY Loft: Microservices Day is on Feb 24 as part of the DevOps | AWS Loft Architecture […]

Managing Secrets for Amazon ECS Applications Using Parameter Store and IAM Roles for Tasks

Thanks to my colleague Stas Vonholsky  for a great blog on managing secrets with Amazon ECS applications. —– As containerized applications and microservice-oriented architectures become more popular, managing secrets, such as a password to access an application database, becomes more challenging and critical. Some examples of the challenges include: Support for various access patterns across container […]

Amazon ECS at The Climate Corporation: Using Amazon ECR and Multiple Accounts for Isolated Regression Testing

This is a guest post from Nathan Mehl, Site Reliability Engineering Manager at The Climate Corporation. — The Climate Corporation aims to help all the world’s farmers sustainably increase their productivity through the use of digital tools. The integrated Climate FieldView™ digital agriculture platform provides farmers with a comprehensive, connected suite of digital tools. Bringing […]

How to Automate Container Instance Draining in Amazon ECS

Update 24 Aug 2023: The approach described in this post relies on a recursive AWS Lambda function. Lambda announced a recursion control to detect and stop Lambda functions in July 2023. Accounts having recursive Lambda functions were automatically opted-out during the launch, we recommend contacting AWS Support to disable the Lambda feature to use this […]

Continuous Deployment to Amazon ECS using AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, Amazon ECR, and AWS CloudFormation

Thanks to my colleague John Pignata for a great blog on how to create a continuous deployment pipeline to Amazon ECS. — Delivering new iterations of software at a high velocity is a competitive advantage in today’s business environment. The speed at which organizations can deliver innovations to customers and adapt to changing markets is […]

Amazon EC2 Container Service at AWS re:Invent 2016 – Wrap-up

We wanted to summarize a few of the highlights from this year’s AWS re:Invent. Announcements On Thursday December 1, Werner Vogels announced two new features for Amazon ECS. Blox is a new open source project that enables users to build custom schedulers and other tooling on top of Amazon ECS. Our goal with Blox is […]

Monitor Cluster State with Amazon ECS Event Stream

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Thanks to my colleague Jay Allen for this great blog on how to use the ECS Event stream for operational tasks. —- In the past, in order to obtain updates on the state of a running Amazon ECS cluster, customers […]

Amazon ECS sessions at re:Invent

Come learn about containers—from the basics to production topics such as scaling and security—from customers and Amazon ECS subject matter experts at this year’s re:Invent conference. We’re excited to learn from you and hear what you think about our recently launched features. Containers are highlighted at Thursday’s Containers Mini Con at The Mirage: CON301 – […]

Running Swift Web Applications with Amazon ECS

This is a guest post from Asif Khan about how to run Swift applications on Amazon ECS. —– Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns. A goal for Swift is to be the best language for uses ranging from systems programming, to mobile and […]

Service Discovery for Amazon ECS Using DNS

My colleagues Peter Dalbhanjan and Javier Ros sent a nice guest post that describes DNS-based service discovery for Amazon ECS. —— Containers are generating a lot of interest due to benefits such as portability and speed of deployment. Containers are also a good fit for microservices as they offer a thin, modular, self-contained environment that […]