Tag: HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS)

It’s every on-call’s nightmare—awakened by a text at 3 a.m. from your alert system that says there’s a problem with the cluster. You need to quickly determine if the issue is with the HAQM EKS managed control plane or the new custom application you just rolled out last week. Even though you installed the default […]

With the rapid growth of software as a service (SaaS) and cloud adoption, identity is the new security perimeter. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Kubernetes role-based access control (RBAC) provide the tools to build a strong least-privilege security posture. Single sign-on (SSO) uses federation with a central identity provider (IdP) to improve security by allowing […]

HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS) is a managed service that you can use to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to install, operate, and maintain your own Kubernetes control plane or nodes. When running containerized workloads on HAQM EKS, it is common to store the stateful parts of the application outside of the Kubernetes […]

Many AWS customers use HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS) to run container workloads on AWS Fargate because it offers reduced operational complexity with right-sized, on-demand compute for containers. As customers scale their deployments on Fargate, they have expressed a need to track consumption with more specificity, such as usage from individual pods, namespaces, clusters, […]

This blog provides a step-by-step guide on how to monitor your containerized workload running on HAQM EKS Anywhere by publishing metrics to HAQM Managed Service for Prometheus and using HAQM Managed Grafana to visualize. HAQM EKS Anywhere is a deployment option for HAQM EKS that enables you to easily create and operate Kubernetes clusters on a customer-managed […]

HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS) managed service makes it easy to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to install, operate, and maintain your own Kubernetes control plane. When HAQM EKS was made generally available in 2018, it supported self-managed node groups. With self-managed node groups, customers are responsible for configuring the HAQM Elastic Compute […]

HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS) is excited to introduce the Kubernetes resource view. You will now be able to see all Kubernetes API resource types running in your HAQM EKS cluster using the AWS Management Console for HAQM EKS, making it easier to visualize and troubleshoot your Kubernetes applications using HAQM EKS. HAQM EKS […]

Data transfer charges are often overlooked when operating HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS) clusters; understanding these charges would help reduce cost while operating your workload on HAQM EKS at production scale. Common scenarios for data transfer charges on EKS Understanding general data transfer charges on AWS will help you better understand the EKS networking […]

Introduction HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS) is a managed service that offloads from its users the onerous task of managing the Kubernetes control plane. It gives users the flexibility to install tools they need to manage their application workloads on the data plane. However, many customers want us to manage some of these tools […]

The HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS) team is pleased to announce support for Kubernetes 1.22. HAQM EKS, HAQM EKS Distro, and HAQM EKS Anywhere can now run Kubernetes version 1.22. The upstream project theme for this release is “Reaching New Peaks.” The theme for the release, according to release lead Savitha Raghunathan, is due to what she […]