Category: Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

This post was co-authored by James Fogel, Staff Software Engineer on the Cloud Architecture Team at Pinterest Part 2: Spark on EKS network design at scale Introduction In this two-part series, my counterpart, James Fogel (Staff Cloud Architect at Pinterest), and I share Pinterest’s journey designing and implementing their networking topology for running large-scale Spark […]

This post was co-authored by James Fogel, Staff Software Engineer on the Cloud Architecture Team at Pinterest Part 1: Design process for Amazon EKS networking at scale Introduction Pinterest is a platform that helps inspire people to live a life they love. Big data and machine learning (ML) are core to Pinterest’s platform and product, […]

Introduction At AWS we are constantly striving to improve customer experience. For instance, we launched IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) in 2019 that allows customers to configure Kubernetes (k8s) applications running on AWS with fine-grained AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) permissions to access other AWS resources such as Amazon Simple Storage Service […]

Introduction Amazon’s Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) removes a lot of the heavy lifting that goes into managing Kubernetes. For example, AWS manages the Kubernetes control plane on your behalf, including patching, tuning, and updating it as necessary. Then there are features such as managed node groups that give you a mechanism for managing the […]

Introduction Since the initial Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) launch, it has supported AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) principals as entities that can authenticate against a cluster. This was done to remove the burden—from administrators—of having to maintain a separate identity provider. Using AWS IAM also allows AWS customers to use their […]

Introduction Intra-VPC Communication enables network communication between subnets in the same Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) across multiple physical AWS Outposts using the Outposts local gateways (LGW) via direct VPC routing. With this feature, you can leverage a single Amazon VPC architecture for communication between applications and services running on disparate AWS Outposts. You […]

Post co-written by Shahar Azulay, CEO and Co-Founder at GroundCover Introduction The abstraction introduced by Kubernetes allows teams to easily run applications at varying scale without worrying about resource allocation, autoscaling, or self-healing. However, abstraction isn’t without cost and adds complexity and difficulty tracking down the root cause of problems that Kubernetes users experience. To […]

Today, we are excited to introduce the EKS Developers Workshop, a comprehensive and beginner-friendly workshop designed specifically for developers embarking on their Kubernetes and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) journey. This new workshop augments the existing EKS Workshop for cluster operators by focusing on developers and the unique tools and processes they utilize in […]

Introduction Containerization has gained popularity as a method for deploying and managing applications with Kubernetes, which is a leading container orchestration platform. Many customers choose Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) for its performance, scalability, availability, and integration with other AWS services and security. Enterprises across the industry opt for private container repositories, such as […]

This post was coauthored by Mike Ravkine, Sr. Director at Cognitive Systems Introduction Cognitive Systems Corp., which provides pioneering Wi-Fi sensing technology, WiFi Motion, has redefined how people interact with wireless networks by using existing Wi-Fi signals to transform connected devices into motion sensors. Cognitive System’s Wi-Fi Sensing technology constitutes a comprehensive software stack that […]