Category: Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

Introduction On October 4, 2023, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) announced the public preview of extended support for Kubernetes versions, which gives you an additional 12 months of support for Kubernetes minor versions. Today, we are announcing the pricing for extended support. Amazon EKS clusters running on a Kubernetes version in the extended support […]

Introduction Apache Kafka, a distributed streaming platform, has become a popular choice for building real-time data pipelines, streaming applications, and event-driven architectures. It is horizontally scalable, fault-tolerant, and performant. However, managing and scaling Kafka clusters can be challenging and often time-consuming. This is where Kubernetes, an open-source platform for automating deployment, scaling, and management of […]

Introduction The AWS Load Balancer Controller is a Kubernetes Special Interest Group (SIG) project, which enables organizations reduce their Kubernetes compute costs and the complexity of their application routing configuration. As you deploy workloads on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), the controller simplifies exposing those applications by automating the provisioning and management and configuration […]

This blog post was co-written by William Ho, Software Engineer, Airtable. Introduction Airtable is a connected applications platform that lets teams and enterprises build flexible interfaces and compose automations on top of their key data. Airtable provides so much flexibility that customers use Airtable for the most critical workflows across their organization. Today, half of […]

This post was co-authored by James Fogel, Staff Software Engineer on the Cloud Architecture Team at Pinterest Part 2: Spark on EKS network design at scale Introduction In this two-part series, my counterpart, James Fogel (Staff Cloud Architect at Pinterest), and I share Pinterest’s journey designing and implementing their networking topology for running large-scale Spark […]

This post was co-authored by James Fogel, Staff Software Engineer on the Cloud Architecture Team at Pinterest Part 1: Design process for Amazon EKS networking at scale Introduction Pinterest is a platform that helps inspire people to live a life they love. Big data and machine learning (ML) are core to Pinterest’s platform and product, […]

Introduction At AWS we are constantly striving to improve customer experience. For instance, we launched IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) in 2019 that allows customers to configure Kubernetes (k8s) applications running on AWS with fine-grained AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) permissions to access other AWS resources such as Amazon Simple Storage Service […]

Introduction Amazon’s Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) removes a lot of the heavy lifting that goes into managing Kubernetes. For example, AWS manages the Kubernetes control plane on your behalf, including patching, tuning, and updating it as necessary. Then there are features such as managed node groups that give you a mechanism for managing the […]

Introduction Since the initial Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) launch, it has supported AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) principals as entities that can authenticate against a cluster. This was done to remove the burden—from administrators—of having to maintain a separate identity provider. Using AWS IAM also allows AWS customers to use their […]

Introduction Intra-VPC Communication enables network communication between subnets in the same Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) across multiple physical AWS Outposts using the Outposts local gateways (LGW) via direct VPC routing. With this feature, you can leverage a single Amazon VPC architecture for communication between applications and services running on disparate AWS Outposts. You […]