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Tag: HAQM ECS

A Guide to Locally Testing Containers with HAQM ECS Local Endpoints and Docker Compose

This post is contributed by Wesley Pettit, Software Engineer at AWS. As more companies adopt containers, developers need easy, powerful ways to test their containerized applications locally, before they deploy to AWS. Today, the containers team is releasing the first tool dedicated to this: HAQM ECS Local Container Endpoints. This is part of an ongoing open […]

HAQM ECS Task Placement

Topics Intro Attributes, task groups, and expressions Task placement constraints Task placement strategies Use cases Intro HAQM Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a highly scalable, high-performance container orchestration service that allows you to easily run and scale containerized applications on AWS. This post covers how HAQM Elastic Container Service (HAQM ECS) runs containers in a […]

Scanning Docker Images for Vulnerabilities using Clair, HAQM ECS, ECR, and AWS CodePipeline

Post by Vikrama Adethyaa, Solution Architect and Tiffany Jernigan, Developer Advocate Update – July 26, 2021 – While this post remains accurate, we want to make it clear that we did announce built in image scanning in HAQM ECR in October 2019. The built in integration provides a simpler solution than what is in this post. […]

Re-affirming Long-Term Support for Java in HAQM Linux

In light of Oracle’s recent announcement indicating an end to free long-term support for OpenJDK after January 2019, we re-affirm that the OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK 11 Java runtimes in HAQM Linux 2 will continue to receive free long-term support from HAQM until at least June 30, 2023. We are collaborating and contributing in the […]

HAQM ECS and Docker volume drivers, part 1: HAQM EBS

→ Part 2: HAQM EFS   Post by: Jeremy Cowan, Ronnie Eichler, and Tiffany Jernigan Introduction Containers are emerging as the default compute primitive for building cloud-native applications.  They facilitate the adoption of continuous delivery, and help increase infrastructure use. However, deploying stateful application as containers has been challenging because containers have short life-spans, get […]

Using Cromwell with AWS Batch

Contributed by W. Lee Pang and Emil Lerch, WWPS Professional Services DNA is often referred to as the “source code of life.” All living cells contain long chains of deoxyribonucleic acid that encode instructions on how they are constructed and behave in their surroundings. Genomics is the study of the structure and function of DNA […]

Introducing private registry authentication support for AWS Fargate

This post courtesy of Tiffany Jernigan, AWS Developer Advocate – Containers Private registry authentication support for HAQM Elastic Container Service (HAQM ECS) is now available with the AWS Fargate launch type! Now, in addition to HAQM Elastic Container Registry (HAQM ECR), you can use any private registry or repository of your choice for both EC2 and Fargate launch types. […]

Refreshing an HAQM ECS Container Instance Cluster With a New AMI

This post contributed by Subhrangshu Kumar Sarkar, Sr. Technical Account Manager at AWS The HAQM ECS–optimized HAQM Machine Image (AMI) comes prepackaged with the HAQM Elastic Container Service (ECS) container agent, Docker, and the ecs-init service. When updates to these components are released, try to integrate them as quickly as possible. Doing so helps you […]

Machine Learning with AWS Fargate and AWS CodePipeline at Corteva Agriscience

This post contributed by Duke Takle and Kevin Hayes at Corteva Agriscience At Corteva Agriscience, the agricultural division of DowDuPont, our purpose is to enrich the lives of those who produce and those who consume, ensuring progress for generations to come. As a global business, we support a network of research stations to improve agricultural […]