AWS Compute Blog
Category: Amazon Elastic Container Service
Building, deploying, and operating containerized applications with AWS Fargate
This post was contributed by Jason Umiker, AWS Solutions Architect. Whether it’s helping facilitate a journey to microservices or deploying existing tools more easily and repeatably, many customers are moving toward containerized infrastructure and workflows. AWS provides many of the services and mechanisms to help you with that. In this post, I show you how […]
Setting Up an Envoy Front Proxy on Amazon ECS
NOTICE: April 17, 2023 – This post no longer reflects the best guidance for configuring a service mesh with Amazon ECS and its examples no longer work as shown. Please refer to newer content on Amazon ECS Service Connect or AWS App Mesh instead. This post was contributed by Nare Hayrapetyan, Sr. Software Engineer Many customers […]
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 […]
Help Secure Container-Enabled Applications with IAM Roles for ECS Tasks
In Amazon ECS, you have always had the benefit of being able to use IAM roles for Amazon EC2 in order to simplify API requests from your containers. This also allows you to follow AWS best practices by not storing your AWS credentials in your code or configuration files, as well as providing benefits such […]