Containers

Category: Announcements

Introducing Seekable OCI Parallel Pull mode for Amazon EKS

In this post, we explore how SOCI Parallel Pull Mode transforms container image pulls through configurable parallelization strategies, addressing performance bottlenecks in both download and unpacking phases. The solution demonstrates significant improvements in pull times, showing nearly 60% acceleration when tested with a 10GB Deep Learning Container image, making it particularly valuable for AI/ML workloads with large, complex images.

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Under the hood: Amazon EKS ultra scale clusters

This post was co-authored by Shyam Jeedigunta, Principal Engineer, Amazon EKS; Apoorva Kulkarni, Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect, Containers and Raghav Tripathi, Sr. Software Dev Manager, Amazon EKS. Today, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) announced support for clusters with up to 100,000 nodes. With Amazon EC2’s new generation accelerated computing instance types, this translates to […]

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Amazon EKS enables ultra scale AI/ML workloads with support for 100K nodes per cluster

We’re excited to announce that Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports up to 100,000 worker nodes in a single cluster, enabling customers to scale up to 1.6 million AWS Trainium accelerators or 800K NVIDIA GPUs to train and run the largest AI/ML models. This capability empowers customers to pursue their most ambitious AI […]

Improving Amazon ECS deployment consistency with SOCI Index Manifest v2

Seekable OCI (SOCI) helps Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) customers reduce task launch times by starting containers before their images are fully downloaded. To ensure reliable deployments, Amazon ECS software version consistency ensures that the same container image is used throughout an ECS deployment. However, when running ECS tasks with SOCI, there was still […]

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Introducing AI on EKS: powering scalable AI workloads with Amazon EKS

This blog post was jointly authored by Vara Bonthu, Principal OSS Specialist Solutions Architect and Omri Shiv, Senior Open Source ML Engineer Introduction We’re excited to announce the launch of AI on EKS: a new open source initiative from Amazon Web Services (AWS) designed to help customers deploy, scale, and optimize artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) […]

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Automating AI-assisted container deployments with the Amazon ECS MCP Server

This blog post was jointly authored by Debasis Rath, Senior Solutions Architect – Serverless and Anton Aleksandrov, Principal Solutions Architect – Serverless Introduction Containerized applications have become the standard for modern cloud deployments, offering consistent environments, streamlined dependency management and seamless scaling. However, the process of containerizing and deploying applications remains manual and time-consuming. Builders […]

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Accelerating application development with the Amazon EKS MCP server

This blog post was jointly authored by Niall Thomson, Principal Solutions Architect – Containers, Carlos Santana, Solutions Architect – Containers and George John, Senior Product Manager – Amazon EKS Introduction Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of the open source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). This new […]

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Amazon EKS introduces node monitoring and auto repair capabilities

This post was jointly authored by Alex Kestner (Sr. Product Manager, Amazon EKS), Ratnopam Chakrabarti (Sr. SA, Containers & OSS), Shivam Dubey (Specialist SA, Containers), and Suket Sharma (Sr. SDE, Amazon EKS).  Introduction Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now offers node monitoring and auto repair capabilities. This new feature enables automatic detection and remediation […]

AWS recognized as Leader in 2024-25 Omdia Universe for Cloud Container Management & Services

In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, containers have become the cornerstone of modern application deployment. As businesses increasingly adopt microservices architectures, the demand for robust, scalable, and secure container management solutions has never been higher. We’re thrilled to announce that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been recognized as a Leader in the 2024-25 Omdia Universe […]