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Sunil Mallya, Solutions Architect Building AI solutions at scale can be challenging, in this blog we’ll look at how to leverage AWS Lambda and MXNet to build a scalable prediction pipeline. Companies that leverage machine and deep learning invest in much more than just training models. They have sophisticated pipelines that include the following stages: […]

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 […]

Today, Amazon ECS announced capabilities that provide granular control over how tasks are placed onto clusters. Previously, if you needed to place a task on a container instance with specific resource requirements (e.g., a specific instance type), you would have had to write custom schedulers to filter, find, and group resources. The following diagram outlines […]

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 […]

Thanks to my colleague Anuj Sharma for a great blog on cleaning up old images in Amazon ECR using AWS Lambda. —- When you use Amazon ECR as part of a container build and deployment pipeline, a new image is created and pushed to ECR on every code change. As a result, repositories tend to […]

We recently added three Amazon ECS console improvements to help you create and manage clusters. Resource provisioning The first change is a wizard for creating clusters that takes care of provisioning all the resources required by the cluster such as the Auto Scaling group, VPC, subnets, and security group. You can also choose to use […]

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 […]

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 – […]

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 […]

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 […]