AWS Open Source Blog

As our customers increasingly adopt containers to run their workloads, we saw a need for a Linux distribution designed from the ground up to run containers with a focus on security, operations, and manageability at scale. Customers needed an operating system that would give them the ability to manage thousands of hosts running containers with […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. Visit the website to learn more. In September 2019, we published a blog post, Building a Serverless FHIR Interface on AWS, which explained why customers might want to use FHIR (Fast Healthcare interoperability Resources) as a healthcare interface, and why serverless technology […]

This post is contributed by Xiaoyan Zhang, a Data Scientist from TalkingData. TalkingData is a data intelligence service provider that offers data products and services to provide businesses insights on consumer behavior, preferences, and trends. One of TalkingData’s core services is leveraging machine learning and deep learning models to predict consumer behaviors (e.g., likelihood of […]

A common request from AWS ParallelCluster users is to have the ability to deploy multiple POSIX user accounts. The wiki on the project GitHub page documents a simple mechanism for achieving this, and a previous blog post, “AWS ParallelCluster with AWS Directory Services Authentication,” documents how to integrate AWS ParallelCluster with AWS Directory Service. However, […]

Large-scale distributed software systems are composed of several individual sub-systems—such as CDNs, load balancers, and databases—and their interactions. These interactions sometimes have unpredictable outcomes caused by unforeseen turbulent events (for example, a network failure). These events can lead to system-wide failures. Chaos engineering is the discipline of experimenting on a distributed system to build confidence […]

This post was contributed by AWS Serverless Hero Ben Ellerby. One of the most exciting things about serverless is the acceleration it can provide to teams. No longer do you have to invest time in the undifferentiated, heavy lifting of managing the infrastructure of our applications. Instead you can spend time writing code that creates […]

AWS provides a collection of tools and services to give customers the ability to manage the resources within their AWS accounts. In this article I will briefly explore some of these tools and services, as well as an open source project that can be used to integrate AWS cost-management services and features directly into Red […]

Madelyn Olson may not be the most well-known of open source developers, but chances are you’ve benefited from her work. Olson is a new maintainer for and a longtime contributor to Redis, one of the world’s most popular databases and regularly touted by developers as the most loved. You’ve used Redis when on Twitter, GitHub, […]

This article was contributed by Josiah Davis, Charles Frenzel, and Chen Wu. TorchServe is a model serving library that makes it easy to deploy and manage PyTorch models at scale in production environments. TorchServe removes the heavy lifting of deploying and serving PyTorch models with Kubernetes. TorchServe is built and maintained by AWS in collaboration […]

Many AWS customers are building AI and machine learning pipelines on top of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) using Kubeflow across many use cases, including computer vision, natural language understanding, speech translation, and financial modeling. In this post, we will describe AWS contributions to the Kubeflow project, which provide enterprise readiness for Kubeflow deployments. […]