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Today, we are happy to announce new functionality in HAQM Elastic Container Services (HAQM ECS) that allows you to delete task definition revisions. Until now, you were only able to deregister a task definition revision and it would no longer display in your ListTaskDefinition API calls or in your HAQM ECS console, unless you specifically […]

Introduction To help customers run their Windows applications in a more streamlined manner, we launched the support for HAQM EKS Managed Node Group (MNG) support for Windows containers on December 15, 2022. HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS) MNGs automate the provisioning and lifecycle management of nodes (HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud [HAQM EC2] instances) for […]

Introduction The HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS) team is pleased to announce support for Kubernetes version 1.25 for HAQM EKS and HAQM EKS Distro. HAQM EKS Anywhere (release 0.14.2) also supports Kubernetes 1.25. The theme for this version was chosen to recognize both the diverse components that the project comprises and the individuals who […]

Introduction What is Kubernetes? I have been working on this technology since the beginning and after 8 years, I’m still having a problem defining what it is. Some people define Kubernetes as a container orchestrator but does that definition capture the essence of Kubernetes? I don’t think so. In this post, I’d like to explore […]

Many applications do not need to be available 24/7, such as those in development and QA environments. AWS App Runner supports this and allows applications to be paused, or deactivated, to lower costs when not in use. The applications can then be resumed or activated when they are needed. This blog post uses this example […]

This post was contributed by AWS Container Hero, Liz Rice, VP Open Source Engineering at Aqua Security. If you’re working with containers, it’s important to scan your images for known vulnerabilities, so that you don’t deploy code that an attacker can easily exploit. A good way of ensuring that all your deployed images get this […]

Since publication, we reduced the price for HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) by 50% to $0.10 per hour for each Kubernetes cluster that you run.  This post was contributed by AWS Container Hero, Casey Lee, Director of Engineering for Liatrio The combination of HAQM EKS for a managed Kubernetes control plane and HAQM EC2 for […]

We spend a lot of time thinking about availability at AWS. It is critically important that our service remains available even during inevitable partial failures in order to allow our customers to gain insight and take remedial action. To achieve this, we rely on the availability afforded us by Regional independence and Availability Zones isolation. […]