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Running an OpenTelemetry collector as a sidecar in every Amazon ECS task does not scale across a multi-account estate, and it cannot run at all on Windows. Learn how to replace per-task sidecars with a single centralized ADOT gateway that ingests OTLP from workloads across accounts and exports traces to AWS X-Ray and metrics and logs to Amazon CloudWatch.

Amazon ECS Express Mode gives you load balancing, scaling, logging, and networking out of the box. Learn how to extend an Express Mode service beyond its defaults with three hands-on examples: turning on ECS Exec, adding a scheduled scaling policy, and adding a FireLens log router as a sidecar container.

In this post, we walk through how zonal shift integrates with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and what happens when a shift is triggered. We also show how to enable it on both self-managed Karpenter and EKS Auto Mode (EKS Auto) clusters.

Today, we’re announcing Amazon EKS Version Rollback, a new capability that allows cluster administrators to safely roll back Kubernetes version upgrades on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters. With this feature, you can now confidently roll out new version upgrades across your EKS fleet with an additional safety net.

Today, we’re announcing customer-routed control plane egress, a new capability that you can use to route Kubernetes control plane traffic through your own Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). This includes admission webhook callbacks, OpenID Connect (OIDC) provider lookups, and aggregate API server requests. With this feature, you can apply the same VPC routing, security group, endpoint policy, and AWS Network Firewall controls that you use for your data plane to the Kubernetes API Server’s customer-controllable outbound traffic on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters.

Financial analytics at enterprise scale is unforgiving. Queries must return in seconds, not minutes. Thousands of finance professionals need concurrent access during monthly close cycles. And when data volumes grow from hundreds of gigabytes to terabytes, spanning billions of records, the infrastructure underneath must scale without forcing engineers to choose between performance and cost. This […]

This post covers how EKS Auto Mode handles VPC CNI optimization, pod density scaling, network security implementation, and hybrid connectivity.

In this post, we focus on observing and scaling ML operations (MLOps) infrastructure on Kubernetes. MLOps platforms running on Amazon EKS provide powerful built-in capabilities for logging, monitoring, and alerting that are essential for maintaining healthy ML systems at scale.

This post explores using the Amazon CloudWatch monitoring, including new Amazon EKS metrics and the CloudWatch Observability Operator, to gain deeper visibility into cluster operations, detect issues, understand bottlenecks, and maintain healthy EKS clusters.

In this deep dive, we explore advanced scenarios with Argo CD including hub-and-spoke multi-cluster deployments, native AWS service integrations, multi-tenancy implementation, scaling with advanced Argo CD configurations and integration with CI/CD pipeline.