Containers
Optimizing Amazon Elastic Container Service for cost using scheduled scaling
Elasticity and cost have always been major factors in improving the operational efficiency of organizations, which in turn drives business transformation and agility. Elasticity is defined as the ability of the infrastructure (including application) to be able to seamlessly scale out and scale in based on the load. This is also called auto scaling. If […]
Read MoreAnnouncing Java support for cdk8s
Today, we are announcing Java support for cdk8s, the Cloud Development Kit for Kubernetes. This rounds out support for the top 3 most popular programming languages and probably the single most used here at Amazon. Now, you can leave YAML behind and define your Kubernetes applications in Typescript, Python, and Java. In this tutorial, we’ll […]
Read MoreDeveloping an application based on multiple microservices using AWS Copilot and AWS Fargate
Introduction On July 9, 2020, we introduced AWS Copilot, a new command line interface (CLI) to build, release, and operate production ready containerized applications on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and AWS Fargate. In this post, we walk you through how to communicate between microservices with service discovery using AWS Copilot. You can also refer to […]
Read MoreOptimize IP addresses usage by pods in your Amazon EKS cluster
Many enterprise customers adopt multi-account strategy to meet their business needs and at the same time reduce the security blast radius. Customers have had problems maintaining network topology because of constant growth and increased workloads. They can quickly run out of IP space while planning out the VPC Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR). In this blog, […]
Read MoreDesigning a secure container image registry
As organizations move to containers, there can be a sense that they are losing control or visibility of the software that is deployed to their environments. Historically, once a server is in production, a scanning tool runs on a regular basis to detect vulnerabilities on the operating system. Once a vulnerability is detected, an operations […]
Read MoreICYMI: Container Day EU
In case you missed it, on August 17th, at the first ever virtual KubeCon, AWS held our day zero event, Container Day. The day covered technical deep dives, product demos, and launches all on how Amazon EKS makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes on AWS. If you weren’t able […]
Read MoreHow Affirm uses AWS Fargate and Apache Airflow to manage batch jobs
This post was contributed by Greg Sterin, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Affirm. Affirm’s mission is to deliver honest financial products that improve lives. Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. Affirm’s Platform Engineering team […]
Read MoreUsing Gatekeeper as a drop-in Pod Security Policy replacement in Amazon EKS
Jason Umiker If you are managing a Kubernetes cluster or you are a security professional responsible for one then you likely have heard that you should be implementing Kubernetes Pod Security Policies (PSPs) on the cluster in order to improve your security posture. Using PSPs can help to block pods from being disruptive to their […]
Read MoreSecuring Kubernetes applications with AWS App Mesh and cert-manager
While working with customers on their projects, I often hear “I want to secure all my traffic with granular encryption-in-transit, close to application code, but decouple security from it.” That’s where AWS App Mesh can help. In this blog, I will briefly discuss how to apply some of the Well Architected Framework Security Pillar design […]
Read MoreAmazon Elastic Beanstalk introduces support for shared load balancers
AWS customers love using managed services because they can offload the undifferentiated heavy lifting associated with deploying applications while they focus on innovating to support their business. Throughout the years, this is why so many customers have opted to use Amazon Elastic Beanstalk to deploy their software artifacts. Customers can pick a runtime environment, point […]
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