Tag: Amazon EKS

March 2024: This blog has been updated for Karpenter version v0.33.1 and v1beta1 specification. Introduction Cluster autoscaler, has been the de facto industry standard autoscaling mechanism on kubernetes since the very early version of the platform. However, with the evolving complexity and number of containerized workloads, our customers running on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon […]

Introduction Amazon VPC Lattice is a fully managed application networking service built directly into the AWS network infrastructure that you use to connect, secure, and monitor all of your services across multiple accounts and virtual private clouds (VPCs). With Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), customers can use Amazon VPC Lattice through the use of […]

Introduction When the margin for error is razor thin, it is best to assume that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. AWS customers are increasingly building resilient workloads that continue to operate while tolerating faults in systems. When customers build mission-critical applications on AWS, they have to make sure that every piece in […]

Introduction WebSocket is a common communication protocol used in web applications to facilitate real-time bi-directional data exchange between client and server. However, when the server has to maintain a direct connection with the client, it can limit the server’s ability to scale down when there are long-running clients. This scale down can occur when nodes […]

Introduction AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for running Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) workloads without managing the underlying infrastructure. AWS Fargate makes it easy to provision and scale secure, isolated, and right-sized compute capacity for containerized applications. As a result, teams are increasingly choosing AWS […]

[May, 2024 – This blog has been updated to reflect Karpenter v1beta1 API changes] Introduction Karpenter is an open-source cluster autoscaler that provisions right-sized nodes in response to unschedulable pods based on aggregated CPU, memory, volume requests, and other Kubernetes scheduling constraints (e.g., affinities and pod topology spread constraints), which simplifies infrastructure management. When using […]

As of January 16, we have announced the pricing for extended support for Kubernetes versions. To learn more please refer to our blog post.  Introduction Today, we’re announcing the preview of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) extended support for Kubernetes versions. You can now run Amazon EKS clusters on a Kubernetes version for up to […]

Introduction In the ever-changing landscape of cloud computing, organizations continue to face the challenge of effectively managing their virtual network environments. To address this challenge, many organizations have embraced shared Amazon virtual private clouds (VPCs) as a means to streamline network administration, and reduce costs. Shared VPCs not only provide these advantages but also enable […]

Introduction The Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) team is pleased to announce support for Kubernetes version 1.28 for Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro. Amazon EKS Anywhere (release 0.18.0) also supports Kubernetes 1.28. The theme for this version was chosen as a play on words that combines plant and Kubernetes to evoke the image […]

Introduction Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) add-ons were originally introduced in December 2021. At launch, they provided a mechanism for installing and managing a curated set of add-ons for Amazon EKS clusters. The add-on for CoreDNS was amongst the first add-ons we released because DNS plays such a pivotal role in Kubernetes. When advanced […]