Containers
Amazon EKS on AWS Graviton2 generally available: considerations on multi-architecture apps
Today, Amazon EKS on AWS Graviton2 is generally available and with this post we want to give you some background on what this means for you and how it works in practice. We had first-generation AWS Graviton from early 2019 on in preview and many of you participated in the AWS Graviton2 preview program launched […]
Introducing launch template and custom AMI support in Amazon EKS Managed Node Groups
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports EC2 Launch Templates and custom AMIs for managed node groups. When combined, these new features provide flexible configuration and customization options for Amazon EC2 instances which are managed as Kubernetes nodes by EKS. This enables you to leverage the simplicity of managed node provisioning and lifecycle management features […]
CI/CD pipeline for testing containers on AWS Fargate with scaling to zero
Development teams are running manual and automated tests several times a day for their feature branches. Running tests locally is only one part of the process. To test workloads against other systems as well as give access to QA engineers, it requires deploying code to dedicated environments. These servers/VMs spend hours idling because new test […]
AWS Copilot: an application-first CLI for containers on AWS
On July 9, 2020, we introduced AWS Copilot, a new command line interface (CLI) to build, release, and operate production ready containerized applications on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and AWS Fargate. In this post, I walk you through the design tenets of the CLI, why we chose them, how they map to Copilot […]
Container DevSecOps with AWS CodePipeline using Hadolint and Anchore Engine
Many organizations are or are considering migrating their applications and/or software to containers over traditional virtual machines given that they are incredibly fast, easy to maintain, have simpler deployment lifecycles, and are much easier to spin up and down. This can greatly reduce the cost and increase efficiency. For a secure container life cycle management, […]
Saving money a pod at a time with EKS, Fargate, and AWS Compute Savings Plans
At re:Invent 2019, we announced the ability to deploy Kubernetes pods on AWS Fargate via Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Since then we’ve seen customers rapidly adopt the Kubernetes API to deploy pods onto Fargate, the AWS serverless infrastructure for running containers. This allows them to get rid of a lot of the undifferentiated […]
Register for AWS Container Day to Learn About Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, AWS Fargate, Bottlerocket, and More!
Previous AWS Container Day events have included a number of discussions and deep dives on running Kubernetes at AWS – and now we are bringing this content right to your home! Join us for the first-ever virtual Container Day on August 17th, 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM (PDT). Check out the agenda and some of […]
AWS Fargate now supports UDP load balancing with Network Load Balancer
From machine learning inference to gaming, from web hosting to batch processing, customers are using AWS Fargate to innovate faster and build products without maintaining servers. Many of you told us how important it is for you to run UDP-based applications in Fargate in AWS containers roadmap issue #445. User Datagram Protocol, more popularly known […]
Introducing Amazon ECR server-side encryption using AWS Key Management System
Today, we introduced Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) server-side encryption at rest using AWS managed and customer managed keys stored in AWS Key Management System (AWS KMS). This feature allows you to select the appropriate key management configuration to meet your security and compliance requirements, and meet the level of control required for your […]
How to track costs in multi-tenant Amazon EKS clusters using Kubecost
Many AWS customers use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to operate multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters where workloads that belong to different teams or projects run in a shared cluster. Customers like that Kubernetes offers centralized management of workloads, enabling administrators to create, update, scale, and secure workloads using a single API. In this post we […]








