Containers

Henrique Santana

Author: Henrique Santana

Henrique Santana is a Sr. Cloud Support Engineer in AWS Dublin with 15+ years experience in IT Infrastructure. He enjoys helping customers regarding Containers topic. In his spare time, he spent time with his family and friends. You can follow Henrique on LindedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/henriquessantana/

Troubleshooting with Amazon ECS Exec and Amazon CloudWatch Logs Live Tail in the AWS Management Console

In this post, we explore how the integration of Amazon CloudWatch Logs Live Tail and Amazon ECS Exec with AWS CloudShell in the Amazon ECS console streamlines container troubleshooting by eliminating the need to switch between multiple interfaces or maintain separate CLI configurations. These new features centralize essential debugging capabilities, allowing DevOps engineers and developers to maintain reliable container-based applications while preserving necessary security and governance controls.

Streamline service-to-service communication during deployments with Amazon ECS Service Connect

When deploying containerized microservices, maintaining reliable service discovery and efficient routing during updates presents significant challenges. Traditional blue/green deployment approaches rely heavily on load balancer for traffic management, which can become complex when dealing with container-based service-to-service communication. This complexity increases the possibility of service disruption and makes it difficult to test new versions in […]

Serverless containers at AWS re:Invent 2024

AWS re:Invent is the premier learning conference hosted by AWS for the global cloud computing community. This year the Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and AWS Fargate teams will share the latest trends, innovations, best practices, and tips to help you increase productivity, optimize costs, and enhance business agility. Join us in Las Vegas […]

Monitoring the Amazon ECS Agent

Note: Since this post was published, Amazon ECS added built-in detection and repair of impaired agent connectivity, which is now the recommended approach. For more information, see Monitor Amazon ECS container instance health. Introduction Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service that allows organizations to deploy, manage, and scale […]