Tag: Performance

Introduction Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) has gained significant popularity as a managed Kubernetes service, providing a scalable and reliable platform for running containerized applications. Behind the scenes, Amazon EKS uses etcd, a distributed key-value store, to store cluster configuration, state, and metadata. In this post, we delve into the defragmentation functionality in etcd and discuss the […]

With the Generative Artificial intelligence (GenAI) and machine learning (ML) surge, GPU-intensive tasks such as machine learning, graphics rendering, and high-performance computing are becoming increasingly prevalent. However, many of these tasks do not always require the full performance and resources of a high-end GPU. This underutilization of GPU resources leads to inefficiencies, increased costs, and […]

Introduction Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that continuously monitors your AWS environment for malicious activity and anomalous behavior. Since its launch in 2017, Amazon GuardDuty has expanded its visibility and threat detection coverage. Amazon GuardDuty is capable of analyzing tens of billions of events per minute across multiple AWS data sources such as […]

Introduction In Kubernetes, the Data Plane consists of two layers of scaling: a pod layer and a worker node layer. The pods can be autoscaled using Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) or Vertical Pod Autoscaler. Nodes can be autoscaled using Cluster Autoscaler (CA) or Karpenter. If worker nodes are running at full capacity and new pods […]

This post was written in collaboration with Matthew Overstreet from DataStax. Introduction With the current widespread adoption of Kubernetes as the target compute platform, many AWS customers and partners consider it the standard for both stateless and stateful workloads. Cloud scale is one of the values that AWS brings to the customers and combining this […]

This post is co-authored by Alex Pollitt, Co-founder and CTO at Tigera, Inc. Recently Amazon announced support for Bottlerocket on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Bottlerocket is an open source Linux distribution built by Amazon to run containers focused on security, operations, and manageability at scale. You can learn more about Bottlerocket in this […]