Containers
Category: Amazon Elastic Container Service
Centralized Amazon ECS task logging with Amazon OpenSearch
As enterprises continue to adopt containerized workloads, the need for robust and scalable logging solutions has become increasingly important. Logging is a crucial element in monitoring and troubleshooting distributed applications, especially in modern containerized environments such as those deployed on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). As microservices architectures grow in complexity, managing logs across multiple […]
Improving Amazon ECS deployment consistency with SOCI Index Manifest v2
Seekable OCI (SOCI) helps Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) customers reduce task launch times by starting containers before their images are fully downloaded. To ensure reliable deployments, Amazon ECS software version consistency ensures that the same container image is used throughout an ECS deployment. However, when running ECS tasks with SOCI, there was still […]
Fully Sharded Data Parallel with Ray on Amazon ECS
In this post, we demonstrate how to implement Fully Sharded Data Parallel (FSDP) fine-tuning of the dolly-v2-7b model using Amazon ECS. The solution uses a Ray cluster running on ECS with two services (head and worker) connected to Amazon S3, enabling efficient distributed training across multiple GPUs while abstracting away container orchestration complexities.
Automating AI-assisted container deployments with the Amazon ECS MCP Server
This blog post was jointly authored by Debasis Rath, Senior Solutions Architect – Serverless and Anton Aleksandrov, Principal Solutions Architect – Serverless Introduction Containerized applications have become the standard for modern cloud deployments, offering consistent environments, streamlined dependency management and seamless scaling. However, the process of containerizing and deploying applications remains manual and time-consuming. Builders […]
Building secure guardrails for Amazon ECS with AWS IAM and AWS CloudFormation Guard
This blog post was authored by Olly Pomeroy, Senior Container Specialist Solution Architect at AWS. As organizations grow, enforcing governance and securing workloads becomes increasingly complex. Security and platform teams face the challenge of implementing consistent security controls, enforcing defaults, and applying best practices without slowing down application teams. Organizations need a comprehensive approach to […]
AWS recognized as Leader in 2024-25 Omdia Universe for Cloud Container Management & Services
In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, containers have become the cornerstone of modern application deployment. As businesses increasingly adopt microservices architectures, the demand for robust, scalable, and secure container management solutions has never been higher. We’re thrilled to announce that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been recognized as a Leader in the 2024-25 Omdia Universe […]
Transforming Istio into an enterprise-ready service mesh for Amazon ECS
This post is authored by John Howard(Senior Architect, Solo.io), Petr McAllister(Engineer on the Partner Team, Solo.io), Christian Posta(VP, Global Field CTO, Solo.io) and Jooyoung Kim (Senior Containers Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS). Introduction Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a fully managed service that streamlines the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications. Although Amazon […]
Optimize compute resources on Amazon ECS with Predictive Scaling
This blog is co-authored by Jooyoung Kim, Senior Containers Specialist Solutions Architect, Abhishek Nautiyal, Senior Product Manager, Amazon ECS and Ankur Sethi, Senior Product Manager, Amazon EC2. Introduction Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is an opinionated, easy-to-use container orchestration service with deep AWS integrations that streamlines the deployment and management of containerized applications at […]
Improving deployment visibility for Amazon ECS services
When deploying software, it’s critical to have visibility into all stages of the deployment process. Knowing the status of ongoing deployments, troubleshooting issues when things go wrong, and having an audit trail of past deployments are essential for ensuring a safe and reliable release process. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now provides enhanced observability […]
How Infinitium reduced fraud detection time by 95% with Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate on AWS Graviton
This post was created in collaboration with Infinitium Engineering Team. Introduction Infinitium (a Euronet Company) is a leading digital payments company in Southeast Asia, specializing in secure online payment solutions and risk management services. With a strong presence across the Asia Pacific region, Infinitium offers cutting-edge technologies such as 3D Secure (3DS) authentication, fraud detection […]