Containers
Category: Technical How-to
Organizational best practices for implementing EKS Anywhere at scale
This post was authored by Mihir Mangalvedhekar, Sr. GenAI Specialist, Next Gen Developer Experience, AWS and co-written with Rajbir Singh, Senior Technical Account Manager. Many users are taking a container-first approach for on-premises workloads using Kubernetes. Amazon EKS Anywhere lets you create and operate Kubernetes clusters on your own infrastructure. EKS Anywhere builds on the […]
Optimize your container workloads for sustainability
This blog was authored by Karthik Rajendran, Senior Solutions Architect (AWS) and Isha Dua, Senior Solutions Architect (AWS). The software architect’s job is mostly one of trade-offs, weighing the considerations of different approaches and then choosing the one that strikes the best balance. Some architects are surprised to find that, in the AWS Cloud at least, architecting […]
Announcing Bottlerocket FIPS variants
Introduction In 2020, AWS announced Bottlerocket, an open source, container-optimized Linux distribution designed for hosting containers. Each Bottlerocket image, known as a variant, is specialized for a specific combination of container orchestrator and cloud environment. Bottlerocket variants are provided to users as a set of Amazon Machine Images (AMI), currently optimized for either Amazon Elastic Container […]
Transforming Istio into an enterprise-ready service mesh for Amazon ECS
This post is authored by John Howard(Senior Architect, Solo.io), Petr McAllister(Engineer on the Partner Team, Solo.io), Christian Posta(VP, Global Field CTO, Solo.io) and Jooyoung Kim (Senior Containers Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS). Introduction Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a fully managed service that streamlines the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications. Although Amazon […]
How Infinitium reduced fraud detection time by 95% with Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate on AWS Graviton
This post was created in collaboration with Infinitium Engineering Team. Introduction Infinitium (a Euronet Company) is a leading digital payments company in Southeast Asia, specializing in secure online payment solutions and risk management services. With a strong presence across the Asia Pacific region, Infinitium offers cutting-edge technologies such as 3D Secure (3DS) authentication, fraud detection […]
Scaling a Large Language Model with NVIDIA NIM on Amazon EKS with Karpenter
Many organizations are building artificial intelligence (AI) applications using Large Language Models (LLMs) to deliver new experiences to their customers, from content creation to customer service and data analysis. However, the substantial size and intensive computational requirements of these models may have challenges in configuring, deploying, and scaling them effectively on graphic processing units (GPUs). […]
How to optimize log management for Amazon EKS with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
Cloud native technologies empower organizations to build and run scalable applications in modern, dynamic environments. Among Cloud Native patterns, Containers, and Kubernetes are mainstream across multiple businesses. According to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation Annual Survey of 2022, 44% of respondents are already using containers for nearly all applications and business segments, and another 35% say containers are […]
Using GitOps for Stateful Workload Management with vSphere CSI driver on on-premises Kubernetes
Kubernetes has become the de-facto standard for container orchestration, providing powerful capabilities for deploying and managing stateless workloads. However, users running stateful applications on Kubernetes face unique challenges, especially in VMware environments. A key issue is that the virtual disks used by stateful apps can’t be attached to pods as easily as ephemeral storage. The […]
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 – […]
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 […]