Containers
Tag: ECS
Theoretical cost optimization by Amazon ECS launch type: Fargate vs EC2
This post was contributed by Julia Beck, Thomas Le Moullec, Kevin Polossat, and Sam Sanders Customers often ask about best practices when using Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), in particular around the Well-Architected Framework pillar of Cost Optimization. Within this, choosing between the two different launch types, EC2 and Fargate, may be one of […]
Read MoreAmazon Elastic Container Service Anomaly Detector using Amazon EventBridge
This post was contributed by Ugur KIRA and Santosh Kumar. This concept originated from discussions with Skyscanner UK regarding to manage ECS clusters at large scale. Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus that makes it easy to connect applications together using data from your own applications, integrated Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, and AWS services. EventBridge […]
Read MoreKlook Case Study
About Klook: Klook, a world-leading travel activities and services booking platform, empowers travelers to discover and book on-demand local attractions, tours, transportation, food and exclusive experiences in more than 350 destinations around the world. More than 30 million people in over 180 markets use Klook’s website and award-winning app every month. Klook platforms support 41 […]
Read MoreUsing Windows Authentication with Linux Containers on Amazon ECS
This post shows how to configure a Linux container running on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) to connect to a SQL Server database using Windows (or Integrated) Authentication. Windows Authentication is the recommended mechanism to connect to SQL Server databases, but using it can be challenging when running containerized workloads.
Read MoreRunning Airflow on AWS Fargate
Apache Airflow is an open-source distributed workflow management platform that allows you to schedule, orchestrate, and monitor workflows. Airflow helps you automate and orchestrate complex data pipelines that can be multistep with inter-dependencies. This post presents a reference architecture where Airflow runs entirely on AWS Fargate with Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) as the orchestrator, […]
Read Morere:Invent 2020: AWS Containers Track
re:Invent is a free, 3-week virtual conference that will be held November 30 – December 18, 2020. Starting this week, registered attendees can access scheduled and on-demand sessions on topics across AWS Services. In this post, we’ll cover the Containers track, featuring sessions on Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, AWS Fargate, Amazon ECR, and AWS App […]
Read MoreAccelerate modernization of your application using App2Container
Introduction Many enterprises want to modernize their existing applications and containerize them to minimize disruptions that could stem from clunky, outdated and unscalable legacy systems. These enterprises need tools to simplify the containerization process of existing Java and .NET applications and increase operational efficiency, harmonize CI/CD processes, and increase agility. AWS App2Container (A2C) enables companies […]
Read MoreAdvice for customers dealing with Docker Hub rate limits, and a Coming Soon announcement
Many container customers building applications use common software packages (e.g. operating systems, databases, and application components) that are publicly distributed as container images on Docker Hub. Docker, Inc. has announced that the Hub service will begin limiting the rate at which images are pulled under their anonymous and free plans. These limits will progressively take […]
Read MoreHow to set Fluentd and Fluent Bit input parameters in FireLens
This post was contributed by Ben Anscombe, DevOps Engineer at Space Ape Games and Wesley Pettit, Software Engineer at AWS. FireLens for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) was launched last year to make it easy for ECS customers to send and process logs using standard open source logging tools – Fluentd and Fluent Bit. […]
Read MoreAmazon CloudWatch Prometheus metrics now generally available
Imaya Kumar Jagannathan, TP Kohli, and Michael Hausenblas In Using Prometheus Metrics in Amazon CloudWatch we showed you how to use the beta version of the Amazon CloudWatch supporting the ingestion of Prometheus metrics. Now that we made this feature generally available we explore its benefits in greater detail and show you how to use […]
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