Category: AWS Lambda

Introduction The adoption and large-scale growth of Kubernetes in recent years has resulted in businesses deploying multiple HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS) clusters to support their growing number of microservice based applications. The HAQM EKS clusters are usually deployed in separate HAQM Virtual Private Clouds (HAQM VPCs) and often in separate AWS accounts. A […]

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 […]

March 2024: This blog has been updated for Karpenter version v0.33.1 and v1beta1 specification. Introduction Cluster autoscaler, has been the de facto industry standard autoscaling mechanism on kubernetes since the very early version of the platform. However, with the evolving complexity and number of containerized workloads, our customers running on HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM […]

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 […]

Introduction When you purchase a packaged food item in your local grocery store, you probably check the list of ingredients written to understand what’s inside and make sure you aren’t consuming ingredients inadvertently that you don’t want to or are known to have adverse health effects. Do you think in a similar way when you […]

This post was co-written with Rouel Lanche, Associate Director IT Architect, Regeneron Introduction Regeneron is a leading biotechnology company that invents, develops, and commercializes life-transforming medicines for people with serious diseases. Founded and led for 35 years by physician-scientists, Regeneron’s unique ability to repeatedly and consistently translate science into medicine has led to numerous FDA-approved […]

Introduction When building an application on AWS, one of the common decision points customers encounter is building on AWS Lambda versus building on a containers product like HAQM Elastic Container Service (HAQM ECS) or HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS). To make this decision, there are many factors to consider such as cost, scaling properties, […]

Introduction HAQM Elastic Container Service (HAQM ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service that allows organizations to deploy, manage, and scale containerized workloads. It’s deeply integrated with the AWS ecosystem to provide a secure and easy-to-use solution for managing applications not only in the cloud but now also on your infrastructure with HAQM ECS […]

Introduction HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS) managed node groups automate the provisioning and lifecycle management of Kubernetes nodes (HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) instances) for HAQM EKS Kubernetes clusters. Managed nodes are provisioned as part of an HAQM EC2 Auto Scaling group that’s managed for you by HAQM EKS. HAQM EKS doesn’t enable […]

Introduction HAQM ECS eliminates the need to install, operate, and scale your own cluster management infrastructure. Customers are using horizontal scalability to deploy and scale their microservices applications running on HAQM ECS. They use the Application Auto Scaling service to automatically scale based on metrics data. HAQM ECS typically measures service utilization based on average […]