Containers

Category: Open Source

Monitoring network performance on Amazon EKS using AWS Managed Open-Source Services

In this post, we demonstrate how to monitor network performance for Amazon EKS workloads using new advanced network observability features powered by Network Flow Monitor. We explore how to capture Kubernetes-enriched network metrics, export them to AWS Managed Open-Source services like Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and Amazon Managed Grafana, and visualize critical performance indicators including throughput, packet drops, latency, and connection states across your containerized services.

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Under the hood: Amazon EKS ultra scale clusters

This post was co-authored by Shyam Jeedigunta, Principal Engineer, Amazon EKS; Apoorva Kulkarni, Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect, Containers and Raghav Tripathi, Sr. Software Dev Manager, Amazon EKS. Today, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) announced support for clusters with up to 100,000 nodes. With Amazon EC2’s new generation accelerated computing instance types, this translates to […]

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Introducing AI on EKS: powering scalable AI workloads with Amazon EKS

This blog post was jointly authored by Vara Bonthu, Principal OSS Specialist Solutions Architect and Omri Shiv, Senior Open Source ML Engineer Introduction We’re excited to announce the launch of AI on EKS: a new open source initiative from Amazon Web Services (AWS) designed to help customers deploy, scale, and optimize artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) […]

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Automating AI-assisted container deployments with the Amazon ECS MCP Server

This blog post was jointly authored by Debasis Rath, Senior Solutions Architect – Serverless and Anton Aleksandrov, Principal Solutions Architect – Serverless Introduction Containerized applications have become the standard for modern cloud deployments, offering consistent environments, streamlined dependency management and seamless scaling. However, the process of containerizing and deploying applications remains manual and time-consuming. Builders […]

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Accelerating application development with the Amazon EKS MCP server

This blog post was jointly authored by Niall Thomson, Principal Solutions Architect – Containers, Carlos Santana, Solutions Architect – Containers and George John, Senior Product Manager – Amazon EKS Introduction Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of the open source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). This new […]

How HPE Aruba Networking modernized on Amazon EKS

This post was co-authored by Vignesh Senapathy, Principal DevOps Engineer, HPE. About Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Aruba Networking HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect Cloud Orchestrator is a cloud-native Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) orchestrator within HPE Aruba Networking’s portfolio. Serving as a centralized SD-WAN controller, it oversees both physical and virtual SD-WAN gateways throughout the enterprise […]

How CoStar uses Karpenter to optimize their Amazon EKS Resources

Introduction CoStar is well known as a market leader for Commercial Real Estate data, but they also run major home, rental, and apartments websites —including apartments.com—that many have seen advertised by Jeff Goldblum. CoStar’s traditional Commercial Real Estate customers are highly informed users that use large and complex data to make critical business decisions. Successfully […]

Enabling AWS X-Ray tracing for AWS App Runner service using AWS Copilot CLI

AWS Copilot CLI is an open-source command line interface that makes it easy for developers to build, release, and operate production-ready containerized workloads on AWS App Runner, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), and AWS Fargate. Under the hood, Copilot uses AWS CloudFormation for provisioning and managing the underlying infrastructures on your behalf so that […]

Observability for AWS App Runner VPC networking

With AWS App Runner, you can quickly deploy web applications and APIs at any scale. You can start with your source code or a container image, and App Runner will fully manage all infrastructure, including servers, networking, and load balancing for your application. If you want, App Runner can also configure a deployment pipeline for […]

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Tracing an AWS App Runner service using AWS X-Ray with OpenTelemetry

Introduction AWS App Runner is a fully managed service that developers can use to quickly deploy containerized web applications and APIs at scale with little to no infrastructure experience. You can start with source code or a container image. App Runner will fully manage all infrastructure, including servers, networking, and load balancing, for your application. App […]