Containers

Category: Containers

Yleisradio enhances digital services with Amazon EKS and IPv6 Adoption

Yleisradio is a Finnish broadcasting company running most of its online and mobile services – which roughly 2.1 million Finns use every day – on AWS. Like many organizations, they use IP Address Management (IPAM) systems to allocate IP addresses across their AWS environment to make sure routing works, even between AWS and their on-premises […]

Modernize your .NET application using AWS App2Container and AWS Toolkit for .NET

Overview As businesses increasingly embrace cloud computing, many organizations are seeking to migrate their existing .NET applications from on-premises data centers to AWS. However, the transition of these workloads can often be complex and time-consuming. To simplify this process, AWS App2Container(A2C) is a robust command-line tool that assists users in lifting and shifting their on-premises […]

How Getir optimized their Amazon EKS compute using Karpenter

Introduction Getir is the pioneer of ultrafast grocery delivery. Getir was founded in 2015 and revolutionized last-mile delivery with its grocery in-minutes delivery proposition. Today, Getir is a conglomerate incorporating nine verticals under the same brand. Challenge Getir uses Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to host applications on AWS. One of the foremost challenges […]

Cordial’s journey implementing Bottlerocket and Karpenter in Amazon EKS

Overview Cordial is a cross-channel marketing platform that offers tools to fully automate marketing strategies. By automating marketing execution, Cordial liberates technology teams to focus on their core strengths: building and creativity. It empowers technology teams to delegate data access and management to marketers, using Cordial’s robust platform to migrate, transform, and deliver complex data […]

Harnessing Karpenter: Transitioning Kafka to Amazon EKS with AWS solutions

AppsFlyer is a global leader in mobile attribution and marketing analytics. AppsFlyer helps businesses understand the impact and their marketing efforts across every channel and device, through a comprehensive measurement platform and privacy cloud that fosters ecosystem collaboration while preserving customers’ privacy. Within AppsFlyer, data is the core, it gives the ability to expose detailed […]

How Thomson Reuters achieved 5X operational efficiency and 30% cost optimization with Plexus on Amazon EKS

Introduction In today’s dynamic business landscape, operational efficiency and cost optimization are two critical ingredients for a successful business outcome. This is especially true for companies navigating through digital transformation. In 2020, Thomson Reuters (TR), a leader at the intersection of content and technology with trusted data, committed to a cloud-first strategy with Amazon Web […]

Accelerating development feedback loops with AWS CDK hotswap deployments for Amazon ECS

Introduction Culture Amp is an employee experience platform that provides the insights into employee engagement, performance, and development that organizations need to build a category-defining culture. Culture Amp’s mission is to create a better world of work. Developer feedback loops An efficient developer feedback loop is a critical part of an effective development process – […]

Announcing software version consistency for Amazon ECS services

Note: This blog post has been updated to reflect a change on 12th September 2024. Amazon ECS no longer modifies the containerImage field found in the DescribeTask or Task Metadata output. As part of the initial ECS software version consistency release the container image tag imageUri:tag was replaced with the container image digest imageUri@digest, this […]

Patterns for TargetGroupBinding with AWS Load Balancer Controller

Although provisioning load balancers directly from clusters has been the Kubernetes native method for exposing services, in some cases this creates a provisioning process that doesn’t align with the architecture of the applications. Therefore, there’s a need to have another mechanism for it. For those use-cases, which we describe in this post, provides the functionality […]

Proactive scaling of Amazon ECS services using Amazon ECS Service Connect Metrics

Introduction This post discusses Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Service Connect, a capability that provides a secure and scalable way to connect different Amazon ECS service deployments. This enables seamless communication between micro-services while reducing the operational overhead. It provides features such as service discovery, load balancing, and network traffic metrics. This post primarily […]