Containers

Introduction Many enterprises want to modernize their existing applications and containerize them to minimize disruptions that could stem from clunky, outdated and unscalable legacy systems. These enterprises need tools to simplify the containerization process of existing Java and .NET applications and increase operational efficiency, harmonize CI/CD processes, and increase agility. AWS App2Container (A2C) enables companies […]

Since Amazon ECS became generally available in 2015, one recurring theme we have heard from developers is that they want even easier ways to launch their applications as containers in the cloud. We started out offering a simple way to launch and monitor containers across a fleet of EC2 instances without needing to operate or […]

Customers often have applications owned by different teams in different Amazon ECS clusters. Alternatively, they may have many applications running in Amazon EC2 and some in Amazon ECS. Additionally, the applications may be running in their own VPCs in each cluster. In all these cases, it is harder to get consistent connectivity, observability, and security […]

Logs are crucial when understanding any system’s behavior and performance. For postmortem analysis of software, along with traces and metrics, logs can be the closest thing to having a time machine. A dilemma many developers have traditionally faced is: what to log and what not to? This predicament has led to too many logs or […]

There are many reasons why containers have become popular since Docker democratized access to the core Linux primitives that make a “docker run” possible. One reason is that containers are not tied to a specific infrastructure or stack, so developers can move them around easily (typically from their laptops, through the data center, and all […]

In a previous post, we provided instructions for Using Calico on Amazon EKS Windows Containers. Since that publication, Tigera has announced that Calico for Windows is Open Source.

Many organisations are in the process of migrating their applications to containers. Containers provide application-level dependency management, speedy launches, and support immutability. This can help reduce costs, increase velocity, and improve on efficiency. For securely managing the container lifecycle, container image hardening, and end-to-end security checks are critical factors. Containers need to be secured by […]

In late 2018, we first shared an introduction to using AWS Cloud Development Kit with Amazon ECS. In the almost two years since that article, countless developers have discovered that they enjoy deploying containers to Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and AWS Fargate by writing infrastructure as code using a declarative SDK in their preferred […]

Serving millions of customers and providing cloud services for more than 15 years has taught us that one size does not fit all. AWS gives customers the most choice to run their containerized applications, and we are continuing that approach to provide Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), available in preview today. ROSA will […]

This post is contributed by Haseeb Budhani, CEO of Rafay AWS Wavelength is an infrastructure offering optimized for mobile edge computing applications. With Wavelength, developers can deploy their applications closer to end users, resulting in an improved end-user experience. Wavelength enables the development and adoption of a new class of latency-sensitive use cases that can […]