Category: Compute

Customers running containers are often challenged with having to manage and understand how to run and scale the compute for their clusters. For customers taking advantage of Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on AWS Fargate, the burden is lifted as the underlying compute layer is fully managed by AWS, enabling the customer to focus […]

Note: The contents of this blog are no longer up to date as the referenced Amazon EKS Kubernetes version is no longer supported. Refer to the Amazon EKS Kubernetes versions AWS documentation for up to date information on supported Amazon EKS Kubernetes versions.   The way that Kubernetes evolves and introduces new features is via […]

This post was contributed by Jeffrey Emberger, Technical Lead, The Vanguard Group and John Formento, Solutions Architect, AWS. Cloud applications are changing the speed at which companies can deliver new capabilities for their customers. With increased speed comes the need to more quickly, reliably, and inexpensively observe cloud application health. Observability is no longer an […]

In this blog post, I’ll show you how to set up end-to-end encryption on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service(Amazon EKS). End-to-end encryption in this case refers to traffic that originates from your client and terminates at an NGINX server running inside a sample app. I work with regulated customers who need to satisfy regulatory requirements like […]

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February 2023: Parts of this blog are no longer accurate. Following enhancements to the ELB integration for ECS services, tasks running on Fargate Spot will be deregistered from a target group if it receives a spot termination notice before a SIGTERM is issued to the Task. Introduction Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) gives customers […]

Update June 25, 2025 – The ECS-optimized Amazon Linux AMI (also called Amazon Linux 1) will reach its end of life on September 15, 2025. We encourage customers to upgrade their applications to use Amazon Linux 2023, which includes long term support through 2028. Since its launch in 2015, the Amazon ECS-optimized Amazon Linux AMI has […]

Today, we are announcing the ability for all Amazon ECS users including developers and operators to “exec” into a container running inside a task deployed on either Amazon EC2 or AWS Fargate. This new functionality, dubbed ECS Exec, allows users to either run an interactive shell or a single command against a container. This was one of […]

Introduction Horizontal scalability is a critical aspect of cloud native applications. Microservices deployed to Amazon ECS leverage the Application Auto Scaling service to automatically scale based on observed metrics data. Amazon ECS measures service utilization based on CPU and memory resources consumed by the tasks that belong to a service and publishes CloudWatch metrics, namely, […]

This blog is no longer up to date as it was written for Amazon EKS Kubernetes version 1.21 and uses a version of Amazon Aurora which are no longer supported. Refer to the Amazon EKS Kubernetes versions and Amazon Aurora versions AWS documentation for supported versions. Introduction Why might customers consider deploying applications on a […]