Containers
Tag: service mesh
Optimize AZ traffic costs using Amazon EKS, Karpenter, and Istio
In the evolving cloud-native landscape, enterprises utilizing Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) often encounter challenges that hinder their pursuit of operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Notable among these challenges are the costs associated with Cross Availability Zone (AZ) traffic, with difficulties associated with achieving seamless scalability, hurdles in provisioning right-sized instances for nodes, and intricacies […]
Managing edge-aware Service Mesh with Amazon EKS for AWS Local Zones
Introduction In a previous post, Deploy geo-distributed Amazon EKS cluster on AWS Wavelength, we introduced how to extend Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters closer to end-users for 5G network-connected applications. However, this exact pattern of using self-managed node groups also applies to AWS Local Zones, an infrastructure solution that brings AWS compute and […]
Getting started with Consul service mesh on Amazon ECS
We recently announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) service extension for Consul service mesh in AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK). This is a new integration that makes it easier for customers to use Consul as a service mesh on Amazon ECS. In this blog post, we show you how […]
Sending Envoy metrics from AWS App Mesh to Amazon CloudWatch
NOTICE: October 04, 2024 – This post no longer reflects the best guidance for configuring a service mesh with Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS, and its examples no longer work as shown. For workloads running on Amazon ECS, please refer to newer content on Amazon ECS Service Connect, and for workloads running on Amazon EKS, […]
Ship and visualize your Istio virtual service traces with AWS X-Ray
AWS X-Ray is a managed distributed tracing system that helps customers gain end-to-end visibility of requests and provides rich visualization of connected services. This post will show how customers can integrate AWS X-Ray as a backend for Zipkin traces generated from services in a Istio service mesh.
Getting started with AWS App Mesh and Amazon EKS
NOTICE: October 04, 2024 – This post no longer reflects the best guidance for configuring a service mesh with Amazon EKS and its examples no longer work as shown. Please refer to newer content on Amazon VPC Lattice. ——– In this blog post we explain service mesh usage in containerized microservices and walk you through […]