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Diving into OCI Image and Distribution 1.1 support in Amazon ECR

Diving into OCI Image and Distribution 1.1 Support in Amazon ECR

AWS recently announced that Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) now supports version 1.1 of the Open Container Initiative (OCI) Image and Distribution specifications. This latest version includes support for image referrers, as well as significant enhancements for distribution of non-image artifacts. We are excited about this set of new capabilities, which helps customers more […]

Amazon's Exabyte-Scale Migration from Apache Spark to Ray on Amazon EC2

Amazon’s Exabyte-Scale Migration from Apache Spark to Ray on Amazon EC2

Large-scale, distributed compute framework migrations are not for the faint of heart. There are backwards-compatibility constraints to maintain, performance expectations to meet, scalability limits to overcome, and the omnipresent risk of introducing breaking changes to production. This all becomes especially troubling if you happen to be migrating away from something that successfully processes exabytes of […]

Getting Started with Cilium Service Mesh on Amazon EKS

Getting Started with Cilium Service Mesh on Amazon EKS

Cilium is an open source solution for providing, securing, and observing network connectivity between workloads, powered by the revolutionary kernel technology called extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF). eBPF enables the dynamic insertion of security, visibility, and networking logic into the Linux kernel. Cilium provides high-performance networking, advanced load balancing, transparent encryption, and observability. Cilium was […]

Using Istio Traffic Management on Amazon EKS to Enhance User Experience

Using Istio Traffic Management on Amazon EKS to Enhance User Experience

This is the second blog post in our series “Istio on EKS”, where we uncover Istio’s transformative benefits for microservices in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). In our previous blog, Getting started with Istio on EKS, we explained how to set up Istio on Amazon EKS. We covered core aspects such as Istio Gateway, […]

Getting Started with Istio on Amazon EKS

In the dynamic landscape of modern architecture, making microservices work seamlessly in the cloud can be a puzzle. The transition to microservices often brings complexities related to traffic management, security, and observability. This is where Istio steps in, offering a comprehensive service mesh solution that streamlines these challenges. Istio is an open source service mesh […]