Category: Resilience

In this post, we explore advanced implementation patterns for building highly available services on Amazon ECS, including idempotency, resilience to transient failures, static stability across Availability Zones, deployment safety, and chaos engineering techniques. The post provides detailed guidance on how these patterns can be implemented when deploying applications on Amazon ECS to ensure maximum resilience and availability.

Introduction For improved observability and troubleshooting, it is recommended to ship container logs from the compute platform to a container running on to a centralized logging server. In the real world, the logging server may occasionally be unreachable or unable to accept logs. There is an architectural tradeoff when designing for log server failures. Service […]

Logging provides an easy way to observe the behavior of your container-based application. At AWS, we offer customers several choices for configuring logging. Many customers will start with the simplest or default option. I recently helped diagnose a customer issue that we traced back to container logging configuration. In short, we discovered that an application […]