Category: Amazon Elastic Container Service

In this post, Amazon ECS announces support for IPv6-only workloads, allowing users to run containerized applications in IPv6-only environments without IPv4 dependencies while maintaining compatibility with existing applications and AWS services. The new capability helps organizations address IPv4 address exhaustion challenges, streamline network architecture, improve security posture, and meet compliance requirements for IPv6 adoption.

In this post, we explore the migration path from AWS CodeDeploy to Amazon ECS for blue/green deployments, discussing key architectural differences and implementation considerations. We examine three different migration approaches – in-place update, new service with existing load balancer, and new service with new load balancer – along with their respective trade-offs in terms of complexity, risk, downtime, and cost.

In this post, we explore how Amazon ECS’s native support for blue/green deployments can be extended using lifecycle hooks to integrate test suites, manual approvals, and metrics into deployment pipelines.

In this post, we explore advanced implementation patterns for building highly available services on Amazon ECS, including idempotency, resilience to transient failures, static stability across Availability Zones, deployment safety, and chaos engineering techniques. The post provides detailed guidance on how these patterns can be implemented when deploying applications on Amazon ECS to ensure maximum resilience and availability.

In this post, we demonstrate how to test network resilience of AWS Fargate workloads on Amazon ECS using AWS Fault Injection Service’s new network fault injection capabilities, including network latency, blackhole, and packet loss experiments. Through a sample three-tier application architecture, we show how to conduct controlled chaos engineering experiments to validate application behavior during network disruptions and improve system resilience.

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 […]

As enterprises continue to adopt containerized workloads, the need for robust and scalable logging solutions has become increasingly important. Logging is a crucial element in monitoring and troubleshooting distributed applications, especially in modern containerized environments such as those deployed on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). As microservices architectures grow in complexity, managing logs across multiple […]

Seekable OCI (SOCI) helps Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) customers reduce task launch times by starting containers before their images are fully downloaded. To ensure reliable deployments, Amazon ECS software version consistency ensures that the same container image is used throughout an ECS deployment. However, when running ECS tasks with SOCI, there was still […]

In this post, we demonstrate how to implement Fully Sharded Data Parallel (FSDP) fine-tuning of the dolly-v2-7b model using Amazon ECS. The solution uses a Ray cluster running on ECS with two services (head and worker) connected to Amazon S3, enabling efficient distributed training across multiple GPUs while abstracting away container orchestration complexities.

This blog post was jointly authored by Debasis Rath, Senior Solutions Architect – Serverless and Anton Aleksandrov, Principal Solutions Architect – Serverless Introduction Containerized applications have become the standard for modern cloud deployments, offering consistent environments, streamlined dependency management and seamless scaling. However, the process of containerizing and deploying applications remains manual and time-consuming. Builders […]