Category: HAQM Elastic Container Service

Introduction HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Services (HAQM EKS) provides excellent abstraction from managing the Kubernetes control plane and data plane nodes that are responsible for operating and managing a cluster. AWS offers managed HAQM Machine Images, or AMIs, for HAQM Linux 2, Bottlerocket, and Windows Server. Many customers have requirements, or simply prefer, to use Red […]

Introduction Customers often turn to HAQM Web Services (AWS) to scale their applications, reduce latency, and deploy new features quickly with pay as you go approach. Let’s take the case of customers running hundreds of applications using Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service (PaaS). To achieve cost efficiency, customers can migrate to AWS container services, […]

AWS re:Invent is the learning conference hosted by AWS for the global cloud computing community. This year the HAQM Elastic Container Service (HAQM ECS) and the AWS Fargate teams share their best practices and tips to help you increase productivity, optimize your costs, and amplify business agility. Join us in Las Vegas from November 27 […]

Introduction In microservices architectures, teams often build and manage internal applications that they expose as private API endpoints and publicly expose those endpoints through a centralized API gateway where security protections are centrally managed. These API endpoints allow both internal and external users to leverage the functionality of those applications. The separation of concerns between […]

Introduction HAQM Elastic Container Service (HAQM ECS) is a container orchestration service that manages the lifecycle of billions of application containers on AWS every week. One of the core goals of HAQM ECS is to remove overhead burden from human operators. HAQM ECS watches over your application containers 24/7, and can respond to unexpected changes […]

Introduction In part 1 and part 2 of this series, the importance of measuring time accuracy and relevant concepts were discussed. Additionally, we covered specifics on ways to put those concepts into practice, track metrics using HAQM CloudWatch and implement a practical solution for HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) instances. In this part 3, […]

Introduction HAQM Elastic Container Service (HAQM ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service that simplifies your deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications. HAQM ECS has deep AWS integrations and best practices built-in, which enable you to run and scale your applications in the cloud or on-premises, without the complexity of managing a control […]

This blog post was co-authored by Mike Norton – VP Cloud Services & Operations, PBS, Warrick St. Jean – Sr. Director Solution Architect, PBS, and Brian Link – Director, Technical Operations, PBS Introduction PBS is a private, nonprofit corporation, founded in 1969, whose members are America’s public TV stations. They have been an AWS customer […]

About a year ago, we published a post on how to Optimize your Spring Boot application for AWS Fargate, where we went into different optimization techniques to speed up the startup time of Spring Boot applications for AWS Fargate. We started the post with “Fast startup times are key to quickly react to disruptions and […]

Introduction In this post, we’ll explore how to publish and consume services running on HAQM Elastic Container Service (HAQM ECS) and AWS Lambda, as HAQM VPC Lattice services. For an introduction to HAQM VPC Lattice, please read the documentation here. One main reason customer experience a lower velocity of innovation, is the complexity they deal […]