Containers
Author: Sascha Moellering
Sascha Möllering has been working for more than eight years as a Solutions Architect and Solutions Architect Manager at Amazon Web Services EMEA in the German branch. He shares his expertise with a focus on Automation, Infrastructure as Code, Distributed Computing, Containers, and JVM in regular contributions to various IT magazines and posts. He can be reached at smoell@amazon.de.
Automate java performance troubleshooting with AI-Powered thread dump analysis on Amazon ECS and EKS
In this blog post, we’ll walk through how to build an automated thread dump analysis pipeline that uses Prometheus for monitoring, Grafana for alerting, AWS Lambda for orchestration, and Amazon Bedrock for AI‑powered analysis. The solution works on both Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), helping teams go from raw thread dumps to actionable insights within seconds of detecting an issue.
Start Spring Boot applications faster on AWS Fargate using SOCI
About a year ago, we published a post on how to Optimize your Spring Boot application for AWS Fargate, where we went into different optimization techniques to speed up the startup time of Spring Boot applications for AWS Fargate. We started the post with “Fast startup times are key to quickly react to disruptions and […]
How to deploy your Quarkus application to Amazon EKS
This blog post is a continuation of an existing series of articles covering different use cases for Quarkus (Optimize your Java application for AWS Lambda with Quarkus and Optimize your Java application for Amazon ECS with Quarkus). In this blog post, I want to show how the Quarkus stack and additional extensions can be used […]
Introducing the Container Build Lens for the AWS Well-Architected Framework
Today we are delighted to introduce the Container Build Lens, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Well-Architected whitepaper. Using the AWS Well-Architected Framework—which provides architectural best practices for designing and operating workloads on AWS—the Container Build Lens outlines the steps for performing an AWS Well-Architected review that empowers customers to assess and identify technical risks of […]
Optimize your Spring Boot application for AWS Fargate
Update: Spring Boot has been updated to version 3, which also means that Amazon Corretto 17 is used as JDK for all versions. Fast startup times are key to quickly react to disruptions and demand peaks, and they can increase the resource efficiency. With AWS Fargate, you don’t need to take care of the underlying […]
Amazon EKS and Spot Instances in action at Delivery Hero
This post was coauthored by Christos Skevis, Senior Engineering Manager, Delivery Hero; Giovanny Salazar, Senior Systems Engineer, Delivery Hero; Miguel Mingorance, Senior Systems Engineer at Delivery Hero at the time the blog post was written; Cristian Măgherușan-Stanciu, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, Flexible Compute, AWS; and Sascha Möllering, Principal Specialist Solutions Architect, Containers, AWS. This post […]
Collecting data from edge devices using Kubernetes and AWS IoT Greengrass V2
Kubernetes is open-source software that allows you to deploy and manage containerized applications at scale. It manages clusters of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) compute instances and runs containers on those instances with processes for deployment, maintenance, and scaling. Using Kubernetes, you can run any type of containerized application using the same toolset on […]