Containers

Category: Compute

Karpenter graduates to beta

Introduction Karpenter is a Kubernetes node lifecycle manager created by AWS, initially released in 2021 with the goal of minimizing cluster node configurations. Over the past year, it has seen tremendous growth, reaching over 4900 stars on GitHub and merged code from more than 200 contributors. It is in the process of being donated to […]

Secure containerized workloads on HAQM EKS and AWS Fargate with Aqua

Introduction HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS) with AWS Fargate provides serverless compute for containerized workloads that run on Kubernetes. By eliminating the need for infrastructure management with AWS Fargate, customers can avoid the operational overhead of scaling, patching, and securing instances. AWS Fargate provides a secure and a controlled environment for container execution. Consequently, […]

Run time sensitive workloads on ECS Fargate with clock accuracy tracking

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, […]

Lacework’s batch workloads on HAQM EKS: Lessons learned

This post was co-written with Derek Brown, Infrastructure Engineer, Lacework Introduction Lacework is a security platform that automatically monitors and detects misconfigurations and security vulnerabilities across our customers’ cloud environments. Lacework takes a data-driven approach to alerting and detection, consuming trillions of events from a huge list of sources including eBPF, Kubernetes Audit Logs, cloud […]

Announcing remote cache support in HAQM ECR for BuildKit clients

This feature will be pre-installed and supported by Docker when version 25.0 is released. This feature is already released in Buildkit versions of 0.12 or later and is available now on Finch versions 0.8 or later. Introduction HAQM Elastic Container Registry (HAQM ECR) is a fully managed container registry that customers use to store, share, […]

How Telkomsel migrated MyOrbit applications to HAQM EKS

This post was created in collaboration with Lutfi Ichsan Effendi, IT Cloud engineer at Telkomsel. Introduction About Telkomsel Telkomsel is a leading digital telecommunication company in Indonesia. Established in 1995, Telkomsel currently has 151 million subscribers with more than 121 million mobile data users. Telkomsel has multiple services from Digital Connectivity, Digital Platform, as well […]

Scale to 15,000+ tasks in a single HAQM Elastic Container Service (ECS) cluster

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 […]

PBS speeds deployment and reduces costs with AWS Fargate

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 […]

Reduce container startup time on HAQM EKS with Bottlerocket data volume

Introduction Containers have become the go-to solution for deploying modern and scalable applications. The boot time of these containers can present a significant challenge, particularly when dealing with workloads that require large container images. For instance, data analytics and machine learning workloads often involve images that exceed 1 GiB in size. When running these types […]

Build a multi-tenant chatbot with RAG using HAQM Bedrock and HAQM EKS

Introduction With the availability of Generative AI models, many customers are exploring ways to build chatbot applications that can cater to a wide range of their end-customers, with each instance of chatbot specializing on a specific tenant’s contextual information, and run such multi-tenant applications at scale with a cost-efficient infrastructure familiar to their development teams. […]