Category: Compute

This is a guest post by Pranav Kapoor, Head of DevOps at Upstox co-authored with Jayesh Vartak, Solutions Architect at AWS and Jitendra Shihani, Technical Account Manager (TAM) at AWS. Upstox is India’s largest investech, a multi-unicorn valued at $3.5 billion. It allows you to buy and sell stocks, mutual funds, and derivatives, and is […]

This blog was updated by Irene Garcia Lopez, Solutions Architect, and Mehdi Yosofie, Solutions Architect, in April 2024 to reflect Karpenter beta changes. Overview Karpenter is a dynamic, high performance, open-source cluster autoscaling solution for the Kubernetes platform introduced at re:Invent 2021. Customers choose an autoscaling solution for a number of reasons, including improving the […]

This post was coauthored by Venkatesh Nannan, Sr. Engineering Manager at Rippling Introduction Rippling is a workforce management system that eliminates the friction of running a business, combining HR, IT, and Finance apps on a unified data platform. Rippling’s mission is to free up intelligent people to work on hard problems. Existing Stack Rippling uses […]

HAQM Elastic Container Registry (HAQM ECR) provides a fully managed container registry service, offering high-performance hosting for reliably deploying application images anywhere. HAQM ECR service requires repositories to pre-exist before pushing container images. In this post, we explore a dynamic solution that leverages AWS CloudTrail, HAQM EventBridge, and AWS Lambda functions to automatically create HAQM […]

As organizations adopt containerization technologies, such as Kubernetes, the challenge of making sure of security and compliance becomes increasingly complex. With Kubernetes environments that span Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and Kubernetes clusters, maintaining a secure posture can be a daunting task. To tackle this complexity and reduce risk, many teams are turning to standardized tooling. Organizations that […]

Introduction Snapchat is an app that hundreds of millions of people around the world use to communicate with their close friends. The app is powered by microservice architectures deployed in HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS) and datastores such as HAQM CloudFront, HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3), HAQM DynamoDB, and HAQM ElastiCache. This post […]

Overview HAQM EKS Anywhere (EKS Anywhere) is an opinionated and automated deployment of the HAQM EKS Distro that enables users to create and operate Kubernetes clusters on user-managed infrastructure. EKS Anywhere does not include a Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver for persistence. In this post, we setup OpenEBS to provide persistence using the disks available in […]

Introduction Quora is a leading Q&A platform with a mission to share and grow the world’s knowledge, serving hundreds of millions of users worldwide every month. Quora uses machine learning (ML) to generate a custom feed of questions, answers, and content recommendations based on each user’s activity, interests, and preferences. ML drives targeted advertising on […]

Introduction HAQM Elastic Container Service (HAQM ECS) has now enhanced its functionalities by integrating support for HAQM Elastic Block Store (HAQM EBS) volume attachment to HAQM ECS tasks. This feature simplifies using HAQM ECS and AWS Fargate with HAQM EBS. HAQM ECS facilitates seamless provisioning and attachment of EBS volumes to ECS tasks on both […]

Introduction We are excited to announce general availability of HAQM Linux 2023 (AL2023) on HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS). AL2023 is the next generation of HAQM Linux from HAQM Web Services (AWS) and is designed to provide a secure, stable, high-performance environment to develop and run your cloud applications. The standard AL2023-based EKS-optimized HAQM […]