Category: Amazon Elastic Container Service

Introduction In this post, we’ll deep dive into the architecture principles we use in Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). We’ll outline some of the features that Amazon ECS delivers to make it easy for your application to achieve high availability and resilience. We explore how Amazon ECS is designed to use AWS availability and […]

Introduction Customers can run their Windows container-based applications on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) using AWS Fargate to avoid the undifferentiated heavy lifting of managing servers. A common use case for Windows Containers on AWS is to run web applications hosted using Internet Information Services (IIS). When using common files in a web farm, […]

The post was co-written by Skylar Graika (Sr Principal Engineer, Smartsheet) Introduction Highly successful companies know that maintaining an accelerated pace of innovation is key to continued growth. They are increasingly looking to modernize their digital backbone of applications and development practices to support faster innovation and improved performance, security, and reliability, while maintaining a […]

Introduction The rise in popularity of Generative AI (GenAI) reflects a broader shift toward intelligent automation in the business landscape, which enables enterprises to innovate at an unprecedented scale, while adhering to dynamic market demands. While the promise of GenAI is exciting, the initial steps toward its adoption can be overwhelming. This post aims to […]

Introduction Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (Amazon EKS) provides excellent abstraction from managing the Kubernetes control plane and data plane nodes that are responsible for operating and managing a cluster. AWS offers managed Amazon Machine Images, or AMIs, for Amazon Linux 2, Bottlerocket, and Windows Server. Many customers have requirements, or simply prefer, to use Red […]

Introduction Customers often turn to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to scale their applications, reduce latency, and deploy new features quickly with pay as you go approach. Let’s take the case of customers running hundreds of applications using Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service (PaaS). To achieve cost efficiency, customers can migrate to AWS container services, […]

AWS re:Invent is the learning conference hosted by AWS for the global cloud computing community. This year the Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and the AWS Fargate teams share their best practices and tips to help you increase productivity, optimize your costs, and amplify business agility. Join us in Las Vegas from November 27 […]

Introduction In microservices architectures, teams often build and manage internal applications that they expose as private API endpoints and publicly expose those endpoints through a centralized API gateway where security protections are centrally managed. These API endpoints allow both internal and external users to leverage the functionality of those applications. The separation of concerns between […]

Introduction Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a container orchestration service that manages the lifecycle of billions of application containers on AWS every week. One of the core goals of Amazon ECS is to remove overhead burden from human operators. Amazon ECS watches over your application containers 24/7, and can respond to unexpected changes […]

Introduction In part 1 and part 2 of this series, the importance of measuring time accuracy and relevant concepts were discussed. Additionally, we covered specifics on ways to put those concepts into practice, track metrics using Amazon CloudWatch and implement a practical solution for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. In this part 3, […]