AWS Open Source Blog

Snowflake Corporate IT Cloud Operations reached a critical juncture in its cloud infrastructure evolution. Managing large-scale containerized workloads on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) demanded a modern, secure, and efficient operating system. The existing setup, running on Amazon Linux 2 (AL2), was functional but presented several challenges. Security hardening required frequent updates and patching, […]

In 2022, we published a post describing the advantages of running video encoding workloads on AWS Graviton processors. Since that time, AWS launched Graviton4 powered C8g instances which offer up to 30% better performance than Graviton3. On video encoding workloads, Graviton4 performs 12-15% better than Graviton3, depending on the encoder, as shown in the following […]

Today, Amazon Web Services is proud to reaffirm our commitment to providing vital infrastructure for free and open source software projects. One of the ways we are doing this is with an extended $3 million annual commitment to the Kubernetes project, the container orchestration platform which underpins the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). We’re […]

Databases are a critical part of most applications and essential to business continuity. To ensure performance, availability, and scalability, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) administrators typically monitor various metrics, such as the usage of CPU, RAM, IOPS, storage, or service quotas. Today, these metrics are found in several AWS services such as Amazon CloudWatch […]

When we introduced our new experimental project Kube Resource Orchestrator (kro) in November last year at KubeCon North America, we were thrilled by the initial response. Customers are excited about kro’s simplicity, and we have seen some creative and novel solutions to common problems. We have heard from platform teams looking to simplify resource management, […]

SonarQube Cloud is a software as a service (SaaS) solution developed by Sonar that provides a comprehensive code analysis platform. It uses advanced static analysis techniques to automatically find and fix code quality issues, security vulnerabilities, and technical debt. They provide support for over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure as code (IaC) platforms. Sonar […]

AWS CDK is an open source software development framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code and provisioning it through AWS CloudFormation. It consists of two primary components: the Construct Library that you use in a programming language to model your AWS application, and a CLI. The Construct Library “synthesizes” a model of your application to […]

When AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) was announced in 2019, the project introduced a new stage in the evolution of infrastructure as code (IaC), and changed the way customers build on AWS. For those less familiar, CDK is an open source software development framework enabling builders to model and provision their cloud application resources using […]

Rust is one of the fastest growing languages around the world. The Rust community has grown into millions of developers, with more products and services relying on Rust. The ergonomics and strong compiler guarantees make Rust an ideal choice for developers. With this growth though, the Rust community has also recognized the unsafety of Rust […]

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the need for efficient, standardized ways to manage and analyze security data has never been more critical. Today, we are announcing a significant milestone in our industry’s journey towards this goal: the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) is joining the Linux Foundation. AWS is a founding member and active […]