Category: Open Source

中文版 – On March 11, 2019, we released Open Distro for Elasticsearch, a value-added distribution of Elasticsearch that is 100% open source (Apache 2.0 license) and supported by AWS. (See also Open Distro for Elasticsearch from Jeff Barr and Keeping Open Source Open – Open Distro for Elasticsearch from Adrian Cockcroft.) In addition to the source […]

This post is an updated version of Deploying the Heptio Authenticator to kops. Heptio Authenticator has since been donated to the Cloud Provider Special Interest Group (SIG), allowing the project to be collaboratively worked on. Now, instead of needing to manually configure the Authenticator, you can use kops primitives to deploy automatically when a cluster […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. Visit the website to learn more. We are excited to announce that AWS is now part of the GraphQL Foundation, and we can’t wait to help the Foundation build an open and vibrant GraphQL community. Let me explain why this is so […]

中文版 – At AWS, we focus on solving problems for customers. Over the years, customer usage and dependencies on open source technologies have been steadily increasing; this is why we’ve long been committed to open source, and our pace of contributions to open source projects – both our own and others’ – continues to accelerate. […]

中文版 – Open Policy Agent (OPA) is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) sandbox project designed to help you implement automated policies around pretty much anything, similar to the way the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) works. With OPA, you can write a very slimmed-down policy using a language called rego which is based […]

中文版 – As you begin your Docker container creation journey, you might find yourself faced with a puzzling question: Should your Dockerfile contain an ENTRYPOINT instruction, a CMD instruction, or both? In this post, I discuss the differences between the two in detail, and explain how best to use them in various use cases you […]

中文版 – AWS customers are increasingly asking for easier implementation across all services, so they can focus on what is important to their customers. In this post, we’ll explain some changes in the installation and configuration process for the AWS Service Broker which make it easier and faster to get up and running on your […]

  Amazon Corretto 8, a no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK, is now Generally Available (Corretto 8 had been in preview since we announced it in November, 2018). Amazon runs Corretto internally on thousands of production services. We at Amazon are committed to keeping Java free. Since preview, we’ve listened to our customers and have […]

中文版 – At AWS, we are excited to support The Apache Software Foundation, championing an organization that is delivering software for public good. Apache’s software is core to much of the Internet and is used by many of our customers and community. We’re happy to kick off 2019 by increasing our support of The Apache […]

中文版 – It’s that time of the year again, and thousands of open source enthusiasts will be traveling to Brussels, Belgium to attend FOSDEM to soak up as much as they can in 700 sessions covering hundreds of open source projects, across the span of two days at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Solbosch Campus. For […]