Containers

Category: Containers

AWS recognized as Leader in 2024-25 Omdia Universe for Cloud Container Management & Services

In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, containers have become the cornerstone of modern application deployment. As businesses increasingly adopt microservices architectures, the demand for robust, scalable, and secure container management solutions has never been higher. We’re thrilled to announce that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been recognized as a Leader in the 2024-25 Omdia Universe […]

Effortless application modernization: migrate to Amazon EKS with existing NLB setup

This post was co-authored by Henrique Santana, Container Specialist, AWS and Luis Felipe, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS. Introduction Many organizations have built their infrastructure using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Network Load Balancer (NLB), often with security policies built around the NLB’s static IP addresses. As these organizations adopt containerization and move to […]

Run GenAI inference across environments with Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes

This blog post was authored by Robert Northard, Principal Container Specialist SA, Eric Chapman, Senior Product Manager EKS, and Elamaran Shanmugam, Senior Specialist Partner SA. Introduction Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Hybrid Nodes transform how you run generative AI inference workloads across cloud and on-premises environments. Extending your EKS cluster to on-premises infrastructure allows you […]

Building multi-arch containers with GitHub Actions in AWS

This blog was authored by Zakiya Randall, Technical Account Manager and co-written with Muru Bhaskaran, Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect. Introduction As the landscape of computing continues to evolve, there is a growing emphasis on supporting a diverse range of computing architectures. This shift is driven by the need for flexibility, efficiency, and performance optimization across […]

Modify Amazon EBS volumes on Kubernetes with Volume Attributes Classes

This post was jointly authored by Kevin Liu (Senior PMT), Jens-Uwe Walther (Senior STAM-Containers), and Drew Sirenko (Software Dev Engineer). Introduction In this post, we explore how to modify Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes on Kubernetes without application downtime. Learn how to use the VolumeAttributesClass API alongside the Amazon EBS Container Storage Interface […]

Automating AL2023 custom hardened AMI updates for Amazon EKS managed nodes

This post was authored by Abhishek Nanda, Containers Specialist Solutions Architect and co-written with Jayaprakash Alawala, Principal Container Specialist Solutions Architect and Rajesh Singh, Sr. Containers Specialist BDM.  Introduction Amazon EKS users in the Regulatory and Compliance industry invest time and effort to build EKS custom AMIs for the worker nodes Operating System (OS) to […]

A deep dive into Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes

This blog was authored by Chris Splinter, Principal Product Manager, AWS Kubernetes, Elamaran Shanmugam, Sr. Container Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS, Re Alvarez Parmar, Containers Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS. We are excited to announce the general availability of a new feature for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) that we launched at re:Invent 2024 called Amazon […]

How webMethods iPaaS built a multi-tenant SaaS platform on Amazon EKS

This post was authored by Markus Kokott, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS and co-written with Balaji Balakrishnan, Head of Platform Services & DevOps, Santa Kumar Bethanapalli, Head of Cloud Operations & SRE, and Natarajan Ramani, Lead Platform Engineer, from webMethods iPaaS. Introduction In this post, we discuss webMethods’ journey in transitioning webMethods iPaaS into a successful […]

Optimize your container workloads for sustainability

This blog was authored by Karthik Rajendran, Senior Solutions Architect (AWS) and Isha Dua, Senior Solutions Architect (AWS).  The software architect’s job is mostly one of trade-offs, weighing the considerations of different approaches and then choosing the one that strikes the best balance. Some architects are surprised to find that, in the AWS Cloud at least, architecting […]

Announcing Bottlerocket FIPS variants

Introduction In 2020, AWS announced Bottlerocket, an open source, container-optimized Linux distribution designed for hosting containers. Each Bottlerocket image, known as a variant, is specialized for a specific combination of container orchestrator and cloud environment. Bottlerocket variants are provided to users as a set of Amazon Machine Images (AMI), currently optimized for either Amazon Elastic Container […]