Containers

Organizational best practices for implementing EKS Anywhere at scale

This post was authored by Mihir Mangalvedhekar, Sr. GenAI Specialist, Next Gen Developer Experience, AWS and co-written with Rajbir Singh, Senior Technical Account Manager.  Many users are taking a container-first approach for on-premises workloads using Kubernetes. Amazon EKS Anywhere lets you create and operate Kubernetes clusters on your own infrastructure. EKS Anywhere builds on the […]

A deep dive into Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes

This blog was authored by Chris Splinter, Principal Product Manager, AWS Kubernetes, Elamaran Shanmugam, Sr. Container Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS, Re Alvarez Parmar, Containers Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS. We are excited to announce the general availability of a new feature for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) that we launched at re:Invent 2024 called Amazon […]

How webMethods iPaaS built a multi-tenant SaaS platform on Amazon EKS

This post was authored by Markus Kokott, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS and co-written with Balaji Balakrishnan, Head of Platform Services & DevOps, Santa Kumar Bethanapalli, Head of Cloud Operations & SRE, and Natarajan Ramani, Lead Platform Engineer, from webMethods iPaaS. Introduction In this post, we discuss webMethods’ journey in transitioning webMethods iPaaS into a successful […]

Optimize your container workloads for sustainability

This blog was authored by Karthik Rajendran, Senior Solutions Architect (AWS) and Isha Dua, Senior Solutions Architect (AWS).  The software architect’s job is mostly one of trade-offs, weighing the considerations of different approaches and then choosing the one that strikes the best balance. Some architects are surprised to find that, in the AWS Cloud at least, architecting […]

Announcing Bottlerocket FIPS variants

Introduction In 2020, AWS announced Bottlerocket, an open source, container-optimized Linux distribution designed for hosting containers. Each Bottlerocket image, known as a variant, is specialized for a specific combination of container orchestrator and cloud environment. Bottlerocket variants are provided to users as a set of Amazon Machine Images (AMI), currently optimized for either Amazon Elastic Container […]

Migrating from x86 to AWS Graviton on Amazon EKS using Karpenter

This blog was authored by Johannes Brück, Senior Staff Engineer (Personio), Donald Dragoti, Lead Platform Engineer (Personio), Steve Flinchbaugh, Lead Platform Engineer (Personio), Maximilian Schellhorn, Senior Solutions Architect (AWS) and Dionysios Kakaletris, Technical Account Manager (AWS). Migrating your Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) nodes to use AWS Graviton based Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon […]

Getting started with Amazon EKS Auto Mode

This post is co-authored by Alex Kestner (Sr Product Manager, Amazon EKS), Ashley Ansari (Sr. Product Marketing Manager), Robert Northard (Principal GTM SSA Containers), and Sheetal Joshi (Principal Solution Architect, Containers). Introduction We announced general availability of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Auto Mode that provides a new capability streamlining Kubernetes cluster management for […]

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 […]

Unlocking Benefits with Bottlerocket: A Purpose-Built Container OS

Post updated on Nov 26, 2024. This post discusses Bottlerocket, a Linux-based open source operating system that is purpose-built for running containers. We will walk through fleet management at scale and how users can benefit from it. We will also share the key pillars that support Bottlerocket’s development plan. The challenges of fleet management with […]

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 […]