Category: Open Source

AWS Service Catalog allows you to centrally manage commonly-deployed AWS services in your organization. Customers are using Service Catalog to meet compliance requirements while enabling their users to quickly deploy only the approved and curated selection of resources within AWS. We have seen organizations who would like to integrate their internal tools and web portals […]

  The Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and Kubernetes Metrics Server are now supported by Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). This makes it easy to scale your Kubernetes workloads managed by Amazon EKS in response to custom metrics. One of the benefits of using containers is the ability to quickly autoscale your application up or down. For […]

The third annual RustConf was held this year in Portland, Oregon, on August 16th and 17th. The Rust community showed its strengths once again, teaching an enthusiastic crowd about building safe communities and safe abstractions. With the 2018 Edition of Rust coming soon, we were excited to talk to everyone and show our support. Through […]

Note: Please see the latest blog Getting Started with Istio on Amazon EKS on this topic (Feb 22, 2024) Service Meshes enable service-to-service communication in a secure, reliable, and observable way. In this blog post, Matt Turner, CTO at Native Wave, explains the concept of a Service Mesh, shows how Istio can be installed as […]

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) provides an optimized Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and AWS CloudFormation template that make it easy to provision worker nodes for your Amazon EKS cluster on AWS. These assets are both open source and available now on Github. In addition to the EKS Optimized AMI, the Packer by Hashicorp […]

Arun, Abby, Brent and I all had the opportunity over the last two months to emcee the two AWS EKoSystem Days, in San Francisco and New York. These events brought together the launch of Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes, EKS (San Francisco), and the four-year anniversary of Kubernetes’ release and three years of its […]

Join us August 29-31, in Vancouver, BC, at Open Source Summit North America. Tracks this year cover a wide range of topics from Linux Systems, Cloud Native Applications, Blockchain, and AI, to Networking, Cloud Infrastructure, Open Source Leadership, Program Office Management, and more. Come by the AWS booth (#103) to chat with us and add […]

The Amazon VPC Container Networking Interface (CNI) plugin allows Kubernetes pods to receive native AWS VPC IP addresses. Because the CNI plugin is a core part of Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS), the EKS team will continue to develop the project in collaboration with our partners and customers. Today, we are releasing version […]

Developers are using microservices architecture to build large and complex distributed applications. Distributed applications provide flexibility to isolate issues to a specific microservice, and optimize that microservice independent of other microservices. While such distributed applications scale well, it can be challenging to identify performance issues in disparate parts of the application. AWS X-Ray helps developers […]

We have recently begun contributing to an exciting open source project, Spinnaker from Netflix. Spinnaker is a cloud-based continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes rapidly and reliably. Spinnaker makes it easier for developers to focus on writing code without having to worry about the underlying cloud infrastructure. It integrates seamlessly with tools such as […]