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Enhancing co-located Kubernetes Pod data access with Amazon EBS Node-Local volumes

Modern containerized applications running on Kubernetes enable organizations to deploy read-heavy workloads—such as machine learning inference, data analytics, and High Performance Computing (HPC)—at unprecedented scale. However, when multiple pods on the same node need to access identical datasets, a performance challenge emerges. Each pod typically fetches files from external storage independently over the network. This […]

Improve Kubernetes pod scheduling accuracy using Amazon EBS

In the cloud-native landscape, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes serve as the backbone for persistent storage in containerized applications. As organizations scale their Kubernetes workloads on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), they increasingly rely on EBS volumes to provide high-performance, durable storage for stateful applications such as databases, message queues, and data […]