Containers

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Deploy geo-distributed Amazon EKS clusters on AWS Wavelength

Introduction In December 2019, we announced AWS Wavelength, new AWS infrastructure that allows customers to deploy workload closer to 5G-connected users and devices. Customers can now use AWS Wavelength to deploy Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters and a suite of supported partner solutions available on the […]

Amazon EKS add-ons: Advanced configuration

This post is a follow-up to our previous post, Amazon EKS add-ons preserve customer edits. Introduction In October 2022, the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) add-ons team introduced the ability to preserve edits, enabling customers to safely modify the configuration of Amazon EKS add-ons by using the Kubernetes application programming interface (API). This enhancement […]

Expose Amazon EKS pods through cross-account load balancer

Introduction Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed container service to run and scale Kubernetes applications in the cloud or on-premises. Kubernetes Ingress is an API resource that allows you manage external or internal HTTP(S) access to Kubernetes services running in a cluster. The AWS Load Balancer Controller in Amazon EKS creates Application […]

Announcing upcoming changes to the Amazon ECS console

Today, we’re excited to announce that the new Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) console becomes the default starting January 2023. The new console makes it easier to deploy containerized applications, configure load balancing, networking, monitoring, and gives you the new workflows for the effective operations and troubleshooting. Since its launch at re:Invent 2014, Amazon […]

Transparent encryption of node to node traffic on Amazon EKS using WireGuard and Cilium

Introduction As the move to cloud native architectures continues to accelerate, one of the common challenges we hear from our customers is that adopting security best practices in Kubernetes clusters can be challenging. One area in particular that has come up in conversations often is how best to encrypt data in transit. This data encryption […]

Know before you Go – serverless containers at AWS re:Invent 2022

This re:Invent, the Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and the AWS Fargate teams will be presenting new capabilities, best practices, and tips to amplify business agility, shorten time to market, and increase productivity for organizations in their application modernization journey. To learn more, join us in Las Vegas from November 28 through December 2. […]

Centralized logging for Windows containers on Amazon ECS using Fluent Bit

Centralized logging for Windows containers on Amazon ECS using Fluent Bit

Introduction Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the support for Fluent Bit container images for Windows operating system. This support eliminates the need for Windows customers to implement any custom logging solutions in their application code or manage custom agents on their Windows instances to scrape the logs. For more details about the supported Windows […]

Announcing Amazon ECS Task Scale-in protection

Introduction We are excited to launch Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Task Scale-in protection, which is a new capability that gives customers control over protecting Amazon ECS service tasks from being terminated by scale-in events from Amazon ECS service Auto Scaling or deployments. Customers can simply mark their mission-critical tasks as protected from scale-in […]

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 […]

Amazon ECR in Multi-Account and Multi-Region Architectures

Amazon ECR in Multi-Account and Multi-Region Architectures

Introduction Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) is a fully managed container registry offering high-performance hosting, so you can reliably deploy application images and artifacts anywhere. It stores container images and artifacts that deploy application workloads across AWS services as well as non-AWS environments. Amazon ECR is a regional service, where each Region in each […]