Category: Developer Tools

Organizations are embracing microservices architectures and container-based deployments to gain agility, scalability, isolation, and separation of concerns. AWS Fargate, the serverless compute engine for running containers in the AWS Cloud, improves agility by taking away the undifferentiated heavy lifting of worker node provisioning and management. With Fargate, organizations can focus on building applications and application […]

NOTICE: October 04, 2024 – This post no longer reflects the best guidance for configuring a service mesh with HAQM ECS and its examples no longer work as shown. Please refer to newer content on HAQM ECS Service Connect. ——– In this post, we demonstrate how customers can implement a canary deployment strategy for applications […]

AWS X-Ray is a managed distributed tracing system that helps customers gain end-to-end visibility of requests and provides rich visualization of connected services. This post will show how customers can integrate AWS X-Ray as a backend for Zipkin traces generated from services in a Istio service mesh.

NOTICE: October 04, 2024 – This post no longer reflects the best guidance for configuring a service mesh with HAQM ECS and its examples no longer work as shown. Please refer to newer content on HAQM ECS Service Connect. ——– In late 2018, we first shared an introduction to using AWS Cloud Development Kit with […]

NOTICE: October 04, 2024 – This post no longer reflects the best guidance for configuring a service mesh with HAQM ECS and its examples no longer work as shown. Please refer to newer content on HAQM ECS Service Connect. ——– Today, many customers are adopting microservices. This approach breaks down software from a a single […]

NOTICE: October 04, 2024 – This post no longer reflects the best guidance for configuring a service mesh with HAQM EKS and its examples no longer work as shown. Please refer to newer content on HAQM VPC Lattice. ——– In this post, we will demonstrate how customers can leverage different AWS services in conjunction with […]

Taking an application from idea to working implementation that people can interact with is a multistep process. Once the design is locked in and the code is written, the next challenge is how to deploy and deliver the application to users. One way to do this is using a Docker container and a tool like […]

AWS recently launched a new service, EC2 Image Builder, which automates and simplifies the creation, maintenance, and validation of HAQM Machine Images (AMIs). Many of our customers are using this service to generate their own customized, hardened images. In this post, we will demonstrate how you can automatically test your HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM […]

At AWS, we’ve been exploring new approaches of making it easier to define Kubernetes applications. Last month, we announced the alpha release of cdk8s, an open-source project that enables you to use general purpose programming languages to synthesize manifests. Today, I would like to tell you about cdk8s+ (cdk8s-plus), which we believe is the natural […]

This blog post is deprecated and the solution is no longer valid. Please refer to the new solution that uses CSI Driver posted in the following blog post: Using SMB CSI Driver on HAQM EKS Windows nodes. Recently, we published a blog post on using HAQM FSx for Windows File Server as persistent storage for […]