Containers
Category: Windows on AWS
Monitoring Windows pods with Prometheus and Grafana
This post was co-authored by Cezar Guimarães, Sr. Software Engineer, VTEX Introduction Customers across the globe are increasingly adopting HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS) to run their Windows workloads. This is a result of customers figuring out that refactoring existing Windows-based applications into an open-source environment, while ideal, is a very complex task. It […]
Increasing pod density for Windows nodes on HAQM EKS
Introduction Today, HAQM Web Services (AWS) announced the support of prefix delegation mode for Windows nodes running in HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS). This feature increases the number of available IP addresses per node, thereby allowing customers to run more pods per Windows node on AWS Nitro based HAQM Elastic Cloud Compute (HAQM EC2) […]
Introducing HAQM ECS Exec to access your Windows containers on HAQM EC2 and AWS Fargate
Today, we are launching the HAQM ECS Exec functionality for HAQM Elastic Container Service (HAQM ECS) customers running Windows containers on HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2), AWS Fargate or HAQM ECS Anywhere. This feature enables you to run commands in or get a shell to a container. In this blog post, we will walk […]
Streamline Windows Container Deployment on HAQM ECS with AWS Copilot and AWS Fargate
Since AWS Copilot CLI launched in 2020, developers have been using the tool to build, manage, and operate Linux containers successfully on HAQM Elastic Container Service (HAQM ECS) and AWS Fargate. By leaving the infrastructure-knitting and resource-wrangling to AWS Copilot, builders can spend more time focused on their business logic. With yesterday’s launch of HAQM […]
Running Windows Containers with HAQM ECS on AWS Fargate
At AWS, customers are running their most mission-critical workloads on HAQM Elastic Container Service (HAQM ECS) with Windows as their compute layer. Still, the undifferentiated heavy lifting of managing the underlying host OS, patching, scaling, and hardening when running Windows containers are time-consuming tasks. Therefore, customers can choose to use the optimized AMIs, which are preconfigured […]
Speeding up Windows container launch times with EC2 Image builder and image cache strategy
Update: On January 11, 2022, AWS announced the ability to launch Microsoft Windows Server instances up to 65% faster on HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Customers can flag any HAQM Machine Image (AMI) running Microsoft Windows Server to launch faster. Once flagged, every instance launched from the AMI will automatically launch faster. This is an […]
Getting started with task networking on HAQM ECS with Windows containers
Today, AWS launched the support of awsvpc network mode for Windows workloads running in HAQM Elastic Container Service (HAQM ECS). This feature brings EC2 networking capabilities to Windows tasks running on HAQM ECS by associating each task with its own elastic network interface (ENI). In this post, we will walk through the steps for using […]
Streaming logs from HAQM EKS Windows pods to HAQM CloudWatch Logs using Fluentd
Containers are a method of operating system virtualization that allow you to run an application and its dependencies in resource-isolated processes. Containers allow you to easily package an application’s code, configurations, and dependencies into easy-to-use building blocks that deliver environmental consistency, operational efficiency, developer productivity, and version control. Using Windows containers allows you to get […]