Containers
Save the date: Container Day + KubeCon
The AWS Kubernetes team is back for AWS Container Days at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022. In the days leading up to KubeCon, join the AWS Kubernetes team and guest speakers for technical deep dives, product demos, and best practices that will help you deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes on AWS. If […]
Save the date: AWS Containers events in May
The AWS Containers team has been busy since we’ve seen you last at re:Invent 2021! We’re excited to bring you two free online events in May to share the latest and greatest on Containers at AWS. AWS Container Day @ KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe is happening May 10th-13th & 17th, 1700 – 1900 CEST. This […]
Best practices for running Spark on Amazon EKS
Amazon EKS is becoming a popular choice among AWS customers for scheduling Spark applications on Kubernetes. It’s fully managed but still offers full Kubernetes capabilities for consolidating different workloads and getting a flexible scheduling API to optimize resources consumption. But Kubernetes is complex, and not all data engineers are familiar with how to set up […]
Fast NLP model development with containers on AWS Fargate
This post is contributed by Efi Gazarov, Cloud Infrastructure Team Leader at Amenity Analytics NLP: the key to unlocking the full potential of data sources NLP, or natural language processing, is used to understand, interpret, and process language the way a human would by using computational methods. It sits under the umbrella of AI, along […]
Choosing serverless: Babbel’s migration story
Who is Babbel? Babbel is a whole ecosystem of language learning offerings, including the world’s best selling language learning app. With more than 10m subscriptions sold and over 60.000 courses for 14 languages, we created the No. 1 destination for language learners globally. We have been running our platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS) since […]
Containerizing Lambda deployments using OCI container images
This post is contributed by Mark Sweat, Senior Software Architect with Koch Industries. Developers looking to run their code with AWS in a serverless fashion have had to make a decision between two separate runtime models – each with a distinct packaging and deployment pattern. The two choices we have had are running functions as […]
Theoretical cost optimization by Amazon ECS launch type: Fargate vs EC2
This post was contributed by Julia Beck, Thomas Le Moullec, Kevin Polossat, and Sam Sanders Customers often ask about best practices when using Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), in particular around the Well-Architected Framework pillar of Cost Optimization. Within this, choosing between the two different launch types, EC2 and Fargate, may be one of […]
Klook Case Study
About Klook: Klook, a world-leading travel activities and services booking platform, empowers travelers to discover and book on-demand local attractions, tours, transportation, food and exclusive experiences in more than 350 destinations around the world. More than 30 million people in over 180 markets use Klook’s website and award-winning app every month. Klook platforms support 41 […]
Delivering tree insights at scale at Aerobotics
This post is contributed by Nic Coles, Head of Software Engineering, Aerobotics Aerobotics is an agri-tech company operating in 18 countries around the world, based out of Cape Town, South Africa. Our mission is to provide intelligent tools to feed the world. We aim to achieve this by providing farmers with actionable data and insights […]
Building a GitOps pipeline with Amazon EKS
This post is contributed by Anita Buehrle, Director of Content at Weaveworks. In the first part of this series, we discussed the history of GitOps, its benefits, and how it works. Now that you have an idea of what GitOps is all about, we’re going to dive into how to configure a GitOps pipeline with […]