AWS Open Source Blog

Open Source News Roundup: January 14, 2018

A regular roundup of open source news from us that you might have missed. Instrumenting Web Apps Using AWS X-Ray A step-by-step walkthrough for enabling X-Ray tracing in the Go programming language. Use these steps to add X-Ray tracing to any distributed application. – AWS Devops blog Now available in Amazon SageMaker: DeepAR algorithm for […]

Network Load Balancer Support in Kubernetes 1.9

中文版 Applications deployed on Amazon Web Services can achieve fault tolerance and ensure scalability, performance, and security by using Elastic Load Balancing (ELB). Incoming application traffic to ELB is distributed across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses. In addition to Classic Load Balancer and Application Load Balancer, a new Network […]

Cloud Native Computing

Last August, Amazon Web Services joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, where I am representing AWS as the CNCF board member, with Arun Gupta coordinating technical engagement with projects and working groups. We have since made several contributions to CNCF projects: at re:Invent, Andy Jassy announced Amazon EKS, which makes running Kubernetes as a service […]

Onwards! To the Year of Open Source

中文版 What a year it has been! 2017 has been a year of steady progress for open source at AWS. We saw marked open source transformation and code contributions driving some big wins for open source engagement. As we continued to grow our open source team through the year, we also created new channels of […]

Run Kubernetes on Your Laptop

A recent survey of 550 members of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation confirmed that Kubernetes is the orchestration platform of choice. The survey also reaffirmed that Amazon Web Services continues to be the leading choice for deploying Kubernetes clusters in the cloud. kubernetes-aws.io lists various ways you can easily create a Kubernetes cluster on AWS. […]

AWS re:Invent 2017

re:Invent Open Source Recap

When we published our post on November 22nd about open source sessions and events coming up at re:Invent, there was a lot we couldn’t tell you – because it hadn’t yet been announced! And there were some exciting open source-related announcements at re:Invent, including FreeRTOS, EKS, Fargate, and SageMaker. Right after the announcements, new sessions […]

Announcing FreeRTOS Kernel Version 10

中文版 The number of connected IoT devices worldwide is in the billions and growing rapidly. Many of these edge devices – from fitness trackers to sensors to washing machines to automotive transmissions – use low-cost, low-powered microcontrollers with extremely limited memory and compute capability. For some IoT use cases, very predictable response times can also be […]