Containers

How Smartsheet optimized cost and performance with AWS Graviton and AWS Fargate

The post was co-written by Skylar Graika (Sr Principal Engineer, Smartsheet) Introduction Highly successful companies know that maintaining an accelerated pace of innovation is key to continued growth. They are increasingly looking to modernize their digital backbone of applications and development practices to support faster innovation and improved performance, security, and reliability, while maintaining a […]

Use SMB storage with Windows containers on AWS Fargate

Introduction Customers can run their Windows container-based applications on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) using AWS Fargate to avoid the undifferentiated heavy lifting of managing servers. A common use case for Windows Containers on AWS is to run web applications hosted using Internet Information Services (IIS). When using common files in a web farm, […]

Cognitive Systems Corp.’s Amazon EKS journey: Wi-Fi Sensing technology

This post was coauthored by Mike Ravkine, Sr. Director at Cognitive Systems Introduction Cognitive Systems Corp., which provides pioneering Wi-Fi sensing technology, WiFi Motion, has redefined how people interact with wireless networks by using existing Wi-Fi signals to transform connected devices into motion sensors. Cognitive System’s Wi-Fi Sensing technology constitutes a comprehensive software stack that […]

Build Generative AI apps on Amazon ECS for SageMaker JumpStart

Introduction The rise in popularity of Generative AI (GenAI) reflects a broader shift toward intelligent automation in the business landscape, which enables enterprises to innovate at an unprecedented scale, while adhering to dynamic market demands. While the promise of GenAI is exciting, the initial steps toward its adoption can be overwhelming. This post aims to […]

Enhanced VPC flexibility: modify subnets and security groups in Amazon EKS

Introduction With Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) users can modify the configuration of the cluster before and after cluster creation without having to create a new cluster. Before provisioning the cluster, users can define specific parameters like the Kubernetes version, VPC and subnets, and logging preferences. Post-creation, they can dynamically adjust various settings, such […]

Optimize AZ traffic costs using Amazon EKS, Karpenter, and Istio

In the evolving cloud-native landscape, enterprises utilizing Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) often encounter challenges that hinder their pursuit of operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Notable among these challenges are the costs associated with Cross Availability Zone (AZ) traffic, with difficulties associated with achieving seamless scalability, hurdles in provisioning right-sized instances for nodes, and intricacies […]

Scalable and Cost-Effective Event-Driven Workloads with KEDA and Karpenter on Amazon EKS

In today’s cloud-native landscape, efficient management of event-driven workloads is essential for real-time data processing. Traditional autoscaling often falls short amidst unpredictable event volumes, leading to inefficiencies and increased costs. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), which is a managed container orchestration platform and is well-suited for deploying container-based applications. By integrating Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA) […]

Run Amazon EKS on RHEL Worker Nodes with IPVS Networking

Introduction Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (Amazon EKS) provides excellent abstraction from managing the Kubernetes control plane and data plane nodes that are responsible for operating and managing a cluster. AWS offers managed Amazon Machine Images, or AMIs, for Amazon Linux 2, Bottlerocket, and Windows Server. Many customers have requirements, or simply prefer, to use Red […]

Amazon EKS and Kubernetes sessions at AWS re:Invent 2023

Introduction AWS re:Invent 2023 is right around the corner, offering a full track of sessions focused on Kubernetes and cloud-native related topics. To help you discover and select the right sessions for you, we’ve listed the sessions below grouped by core focus area with links to the re:Invent sessions catalog. Note that it takes a […]

How HPE Aruba Networking modernized on Amazon EKS

This post was co-authored by Vignesh Senapathy, Principal DevOps Engineer, HPE. About Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Aruba Networking HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect Cloud Orchestrator is a cloud-native Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) orchestrator within HPE Aruba Networking’s portfolio. Serving as a centralized SD-WAN controller, it oversees both physical and virtual SD-WAN gateways throughout the enterprise […]