AWS Open Source Blog

Kubernetes is gaining popularity as a control plane application programming interface (API), and coupling it with Crossplane further extends its usability. Kubernetes not only orchestrates and schedules containers, but also manages resources by extending the declarative APIs and adding a reconciliation process. The combination is appealing to both DevOps teams and application development teams because […]

Container image support for AWS Lambda lets developers package function code and dependencies using familiar patterns and tools. With this pattern, developers use standard tools like Docker to package their functions as container images and deploy them to Lambda. In this post, we demonstrate how to use open source tools and AWS continuous integration and […]

We’re pleased to announce that Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Access Points can now be used in Apache Hadoop 3.3.2 and any framework consuming the S3A connector or relying on the Hadoop Distributed File System (such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Apache Pig, and Apache Flink). In this post, we review what access point […]

Overview Spinnaker enables developers to focus on writing code and deploying their applications without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure. The development team can focus on application development and leave ops provisioning to Spinnaker for automating reinforcement of business and regulatory requirements. Spinnaker, a cloud-based open source continuous delivery platform built originally by Netflix […]

NOTE: Since this blog post was written, much about Kubeflow has changed. While we are leaving it up for historical reference, more accurate information about Kubeflow on AWS can be found here. The Kubeflow project is dedicated to making deployments of machine learning (ML) workflows on Kubernetes simple, portable, and scalable. The project’s goal is […]

Companies providing digital services are looking for ways to effectively identify fraudulent activities, such as online payment fraud and fake account creation. Amazon Fraud Detector is a fully managed service that uses machine learning (ML) and builds on 20 years of fraud detection expertise from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Amazon.com to automatically identify potentially […]

Each year, more and more developers join open source communities and work collaboratively to create software solutions. In Matt Asay’s article, The Real Number of Open Source Developers, he states we should see 27.7 million developers by 2023. More importantly, he points out, the pace of first time contributors is astonishing — in 2019, there […]

The object storage service Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a foundational storage building block powering a variety of workloads from asset backup and serving, to analytics and machine learning. In this blog post, we describe how to search and find a scenario-specific optimized S3 download configuration in minutes using the open source distributed […]

GraphQL is an application-level query language that helps clients and servers communicate by establishing a common protocol for queries. It represents an alternative to the REST style: unlike REST, GraphQL gives the client, not the server, the power to define what kind of data will be included in the response to its query. GraphQL allows […]

Rust is a programming language implemented as a set of open source projects. It combines the performance and resource efficiency of systems programming languages like C with the memory safety of languages like Java. Rust started in 2006 as a personal project of Graydon Hoare before becoming a research project at Mozilla in 2010. Rust […]