Containers

Category: Announcements

Introducing the container build lens for the AWS Well-Architected Framework

Introducing the Container Build Lens for the AWS Well-Architected Framework

Today we are delighted to introduce the Container Build Lens, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Well-Architected whitepaper. Using the AWS Well-Architected Framework—which provides architectural best practices for designing and operating workloads on AWS—the Container Build Lens outlines the steps for performing an AWS Well-Architected review that empowers customers to assess and identify technical risks of […]

Read our blog post about how Amazon EKS add-ons preserve customer edits.

Amazon EKS add-ons preserve customer edits

Introduction As part of AWS re:Invent 2020, the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Team announced the release of Amazon EKS add-ons. The addition of add-ons was driven by customer feedback and a desire to simplify the management of commonly used operational software. With add-ons, you can configure, deploy, and update operational software, which provides […]

Amazon EKS on AWS Outposts now supports local clusters

Amazon EKS on AWS Outposts now supports local clusters

Introduction Since its release, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) has made it easier to run Kubernetes and container applications reliably at scale. With Amazon EKS on AWS Outposts, you can simplify application delivery onto on-premises AWS Outposts infrastructure by using the same application programming interfaces (APIs), console, and tools you use to run Amazon […]

AWS and Kubecost collaborate to deliver cost monitoring for EKS customers

AWS and Kubecost collaborate to deliver cost monitoring for EKS customers

This blog post was co-written by Linh Lam, Solution Architect, Kubecost Introduction Today, we are happy to announce cost monitoring for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) in collaboration with Kubecost. As customers modernize their applications and deploy workloads using Amazon EKS, they gain efficiencies by consolidating the compute resources required to run their applications. However, […]

Read our blog post about how Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes 1.23.

Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes 1.23

Introduction The Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) team is happy to announce support for Kubernetes 1.23. Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro can now run Kubernetes version 1.23, with support in Amazon EKS Anywhere launching soon after. The upstream project theme for this release is “The Next Frontier.” Speaking with Kubernetes 1.23 Release Lead, […]

Getting started with Amazon EKS Anywhere on Bare Metal

Getting started with Amazon EKS Anywhere on Bare Metal

We are happy to announce the general availability of Amazon EKS Anywhere on Bare Metal. We released Amazon EKS Anywhere in 2021 with support to run on-premises Kubernetes clusters using VMware and today you can use EKS Anywhere to provision clusters without virtualization. The new functionality adds support for managing the full hardware lifecycle to […]

Introducing bare metal deployments for Amazon EKS Anywhere

Introducing bare metal deployments for Amazon EKS Anywhere

Introduction At one time, all servers were bare metal servers. We have come a long way with virtualization, cloud computing, and more recently with containers and serverless technologies. Despite these innovations, bare metal servers remain popular on premises. Customers run applications on bare metal infrastructure for performance benefits, to gain direct access to underlying hardware […]

Amazon EKS improves control plane scaling and update speed by up to 4x

Amazon EKS improves control plane scaling and update speed by up to 4x

Years before Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) was released, our customers told us they wanted a service that would simplify Kubernetes management. Many of them were running self-managed clusters on Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) and were having challenges upgrading, scaling, and maintaining the Kubernetes control plane. When EKS launched in 2018, it aimed to […]

Cryptographic Signing for Containers

Introduction In May of 2021, the United States Executive Branch released an Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. One of the key focus areas for this order was enhancing software supply chain security, with requirements around addressing supply chain risks by, in part: Securing development environments with strong access controls Using automated code scanning […]