Containers

Introduction Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes. Kubernetes clusters use etcd, a consistent and highly available key value store, as the backing store for all cluster data. All Kubernetes objects like pods, services, ingress, and more are stored within etcd in a key-value […]

Introduction Recently, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) added support for local clusters on AWS Outposts racks. In a nutshell, this deployment option allows our customers to run the entire Kubernetes cluster (i.e., control plane and worker nodes) on AWS Outposts racks. The rationale behind this deployment option is often described as static stability. In […]

Introduction AWS Load Balancer Controller is a Kubernetes controller that integrates Application Load Balancers (ALB) and Network Load Balancers (NLB) with Kubernetes workloads. It allows you to configure and manage load balancers using Kubernetes Application Programming Interface (API). Based on our conversations with customers, we identified two AWS Load Balancer Controller features that need further […]

Introduction The release of Kubernetes 1.25 was when it was first announced that the Kubernetes project would be updating its official container image registry endpoint from k8s.gcr.io to the community owned registry, registry.k8s.io. The goal was to eventually sunset the old registry over time. However, as highlighted on the official Kubernetes website, this changeover has […]

Introduction Application Auto Scaling is a web service for developers and system administrators who need a solution for automatically scaling their scalable resources for AWS services such as Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) services, Amazon DynamoDB tables, AWS Lambda Provisioned Concurrency, and more. Application Auto Scaling now offers support for scaling such resources using […]

Introduction AWS App Runner is a fully managed service for running web applications and API servers with little to no infrastructure. It deploys your application containers in the AWS Cloud, automatically scaling and load-balancing requests. Once deployed your AWS App Runner service gets a service URL that your clients can send HTTPS requests to. In […]

Introduction The AWS Copilot CLI is a tool that since its launch in 2020, developers have been using to build, manage, and operate Linux and Windows containers on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), AWS Fargate, and AWS App Runner. In this post, I’ll walk you through how you can use AWS Copilot CLI to […]

At re:Invent in November 2022 we announced a new Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solution for service-to-service communication called Amazon ECS Service Connect. Amazon ECS Service Connect enables easy communication between microservices and across Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) by leveraging AWS Cloud Map namespaces and logical service names. This allows you to […]

Today, we are happy to announce new functionality in Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) that allows you to delete task definition revisions. Until now, you were only able to deregister a task definition revision and it would no longer display in your ListTaskDefinition API calls or in your Amazon ECS console, unless you specifically […]

Introduction To help customers run their Windows applications in a more streamlined manner, we launched the support for Amazon EKS Managed Node Group (MNG) support for Windows containers on December 15, 2022. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) MNGs automate the provisioning and lifecycle management of nodes (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud [Amazon EC2] instances) for […]