Tag: Amazon EKS

This blog post was co-written by Lida Li of Quora Introduction Quora is a leading Q&A platform with a mission to share and grow the world’s knowledge, serving hundreds of millions of users worldwide every month. Quora uses machine learning (ML) to generate a custom feed of questions, answers, and content recommendations based on each […]

Introduction Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a Prometheus-compatible service that monitors and provides alerts on containerized applications and infrastructure at scale. In the previous post, Integrating Kubecost with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, we discussed how you can integrate Kubecost with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP) to get granular visibility into your Amazon […]

Introduction With the proliferation of open-source and commercial container software products, customers want to know upfront which products are compatible with the container orchestrator of their choice. Customers expect compatibility testing to be continuous and include all the available dimensions, such as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) / Amazon EKS Anywhere (EKS-A) versions, OS, […]

Introduction Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights allows you to collect, aggregate, and analyze metrics, logs, and traces for your container-based applications and infrastructure on AWS. Container Insights captures metrics for various resources, such as CPU, memory, disk, and network, along with diagnostic data like container restart failures, which enables you to efficiently isolate and resolve problems. […]

Introduction Today we are excited to announce the launch of AWS Signer Container Image Signing, a new capability that gives customers native AWS support for signing and verifying container images stored in container registries like Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR). AWS Signer is a fully managed code signing service to ensure trust and integrity […]

Today we’re thrilled to celebrate the 5th anniversary of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), and it’s an opportune moment to reflect on our journey so far. Since its launch in 2018, Amazon EKS has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide in running resilient, secure, and scalable container-based applications. Amazon EKS, using upstream Kubernetes, […]

Introduction Container images are stored in registries and pulled into environments where they run. There are many different types of registries from private, self-run registries to public, unauthenticated registries. The registry you use is a direct dependency that can have an impact on how fast you can scale, the security of the software you run, […]

Introduction The dockershim, an application programming interface (API) shim between the kubelet and the Docker Engine, deprecated from Kubernetes 1.24 in favor of supporting Container Runtime Interface (CRI) compatible runtimes. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) also ended support of the dockershim starting with the Kubernetes version 1.24 release. The official EKS Amazon Machine Images(AMI) […]

Introduction HardenEKS is an open source Python-based Command Line Interface (CLI). We created HardenEKS to make it easier to programmatically validate if an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)  cluster follows best practices defined in AWS’ EKS Best Practices Guide (EBPG). The EBPG is an essential resource for Amazon EKS operators who seek easier Day […]

Introduction The Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) team is pleased to announce support for Kubernetes version 1.27 for Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro. Amazon EKS Anywhere (release 0.16.0) also supports Kubernetes 1.27. The theme for this version was chosen to recognize the fact that the release was pretty chill. Hence, the fitting release […]