Containers
Category: Best Practices
Introducing AI on EKS: powering scalable AI workloads with Amazon EKS
This blog post was jointly authored by Vara Bonthu, Principal OSS Specialist Solutions Architect and Omri Shiv, Senior Open Source ML Engineer Introduction We’re excited to announce the launch of AI on EKS: a new open source initiative from Amazon Web Services (AWS) designed to help customers deploy, scale, and optimize artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) […]
Managing Team Workloads in shared Amazon EKS cluster using Loft vCluster and Argo CD for better cost optimization and operational efficiency
This blog was authored by Adam Issaoui, Cloud Support Engineer – Containers, Asif Khan, Senior Solutions Architect, and Sébastien Allamand, Sr. Solution Architect Specialist – Containers. Introduction Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) has emerged as a fundamental platform for modern container orchestration. It enables organizations to effectively optimize their application deployment and management processes […]
Analyzing Java applications performance with async-profiler in Amazon EKS
This blog was authored by Sascha Möllering, Principal Specialist Solutions Architect Containers and Yuriy Bezsonov, Senior Partner Solutions Architect. Introduction Container startup performance presents a significant challenge for Java applications running on Kubernetes, particularly during scaling events and recovery scenarios. Although Java remains a top choice for both legacy modernization and new microservices development, especially […]
Amazon EKS introduces node monitoring and auto repair capabilities
This post was jointly authored by Alex Kestner (Sr. Product Manager, Amazon EKS), Ratnopam Chakrabarti (Sr. SA, Containers & OSS), Shivam Dubey (Specialist SA, Containers), and Suket Sharma (Sr. SDE, Amazon EKS). Introduction Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now offers node monitoring and auto repair capabilities. This new feature enables automatic detection and remediation […]
Simplifying IAM Permissions for Amazon EKS Addons with EKS Pod Identity
This blog was authored by Sriram Ranganathan, Senior Product Manager, AWS and Vikram Venkataram, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS. Introduction As part of AWS re:Invent 2023, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) launched Amazon EKS Pod Identity, simplifying how you apply AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions to your Kubernetes cluster workloads. Some EKS add-ons, which enable […]
End of support notifications and enhanced discoverability for Amazon EKS
This post was jointly authored by Praseeda Sathaye (Principal Solutions Architect, Containers & OSS), AJ Davis (AWS Enterprise Support) and Arvind Viswanathan (Principal Solutions Architect). Introduction In the rapidly evolving world of containerized applications, maintaining resilience and observability across Kubernetes environments has become a critical challenge. As organizations increasingly adopt Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (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 […]
Windows Containers on AWS Fargate: Launch time improvements
We launched AWS Fargate support for Windows Server containers on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) in October 2021 to remove the undifferentiated heavy lifting of managing the underlying host operating system (OS). This has enabled customers to run Windows containers without having to patch, scale, and harden the Windows OS, using the serverless, pay-as-you-go compute […]
Scale your Amazon ECS using different AWS native services!
Containers accelerate application development and enhance deployment consistency across environments, thus enabling organizations to improve productivity and agility. AWS container services such as Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) make it easier to manage your application so you can focus on innovation and your business needs. Customer experience is the most important yardstick by which […]
Configure Amazon EKS for environmental sustainability
Introduction Sustainable cloud design requires understanding and minimizing the impacts of architectural decisions. With conscientious cloud architecture, we can innovate rapidly while treading lightly on our shared environment. As cloud computing becomes ubiquitous, it’s imperative that we build sustainable cloud architectures that minimize environmental impacts. While cloud economies of scale improve efficiency, our design choices […]