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My colleagues Pierre Steckmeyer, Chad Schmutzer, and Nicolas Vautier sent a nice guest post that describes a fast and easy way to set up service discovery for Amazon ECS. — Microservices are capturing a lot of mindshare nowadays, through the promises of agility, scale, resiliency, and more. The design approach is to build a single […]

My colleague Jay McConnell sent a nice guest post that describes how to track and optimize the disk space used in your Amazon ECS cluster. — On October 4 Amazon ECS launched support for automated container and image cleanup. Read about it in the documentation. Failure to monitor disk space utilization can cause problems that prevent Docker […]

Vyom Nagrani, Sr. Product Manager, AWS Lambda We’re happy to announce that you can now build and deploy serverless applications using AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway in the Frankfurt region. Amazon S3, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon SNS, Amazon DynamoDB Streams, Amazon CloudWatch Events, Amazon CloudWatch Logs, and Amazon API Gateway are available as event sources […]

Puneet Agarwal, AWS Solution Architect   With the addition of the Scheduled Events feature, you can now set up AWS Lambda to invoke your code on a regular, scheduled basis. You can now schedule various AWS API activities in your account (such as creation or deletion of CloudFormation stacks, EBS volume snapshots, etc.) with AWS […]

My colleague Drew Dennis sent a nice guest post that shows how to use Amazon ECS with Spot fleet. — There are advantages to using on-demand EC2 instances. However, for many workloads, such as stateless or task-based scenarios that simply run as long as they need to run and are easily replaced with subsequent identical […]

Today, we launched two improvements that make it easier to run Docker-enabled applications on Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS). Amazon ECS is a highly scalable, high performance container management service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run applications on a managed cluster of Amazon EC2 instances. The first improvement allows more flexible deployments. […]

Nathan Mcguirt, AWS Solution Architect   Using automation to extend Auto Scaling functionality Auto Scaling provides customers a great way to dynamically scale applications, and we frequently meet customers with new and interesting use cases who want to extend Auto Scaling with additional actions. For example, notifying an auditing system of a new instance launch […]

Tim Wagner, AWS Lambda General Manager The Twelve Days Hours* of Lambda *It’s serverless, so it’s faster ;-) Stuffed with turkey or too many cookies? Not quite ready to face the relatives again? Here are some ideas to use your end of year or holiday downtime to explore serverless cloud computing with AWS Lambda instead. […]

Today Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) added a new first run experience that streamlines getting your first containerized application running on ECS. Amazon ECS is a highly scalable, high performance container management service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run applications on a managed cluster of Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon ECS eliminates the […]

My colleagues Jeremy Cowan and Drew Dennis sent a nice guest post that shows how to use Amazon Elastic File System with Amazon ECS. — Docker containers are ideal for building microservices because they’re quick to provision, easily portable, and provide process isolation. While these services are generally ephemeral and stateless, there are times when you […]