Containers
Author: Bingjiao Yu
Bingjiao is a Specialist Solutions Architect for App Modernization at Amazon Web Services China. He provides expert guidance to customers on containers and serverless technologies. Prior to AWS, he worked at IBM as technical specialist on containers. He is both a cats and dogs’ lover.
Exploring the effect of Topology Aware Hints on network traffic in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
Topology Aware Hints (TAH) is a feature that available in Amazon EKS version 1.24. It’s intended to provide a mechanism that attempts to keep traffic closer to its origin within the same AZ on in another location. In this post, we’ll explore how this feature can be used with Amazon EKS, its effects on how traffic is routed between pods within an Amazon EKS cluster when using multiple AZs, and whether this functionality allows Amazon EKS customers to optimize the latency and inter-AZ data transfer costs in this architecture.