Containers

Category: Announcements

Serverless containers at AWS re:Invent 2024

AWS re:Invent is the premier learning conference hosted by AWS for the global cloud computing community. This year the Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and AWS Fargate teams will share the latest trends, innovations, best practices, and tips to help you increase productivity, optimize costs, and enhance business agility. Join us in Las Vegas […]

Amazon EKS optimized Amazon Linux 2023 accelerated AMIs now available

Introduction Earlier this year we announced support for Amazon EKS optimized AL2023 AMIs that provided many enhancements in terms of security and performance. Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) is the next generation of Amazon Linux from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and is designed to provide a secure, stable, and high-performance environment to develop and run your […]

Powering the Next Generation of AI Workloads on Amazon EKS with Anyscale

Ray is an open-source framework that manages, executes, and optimizes compute needs for AI workloads. It is designed to make it easy to write parallel and distributed Python applications by providing a simple and intuitive API for distributed computing. Ray unifies infrastructure by leveraging any compute instance and accelerator on AWS via a single, flexible […]

Announcing AWS Neuron Helm Chart

Introduction We are pleased to announce the launch of the Neuron Helm Chart, which streamlines the deployment of AWS Neuron components on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). With this new Helm Chart, you can now seamlessly install the necessary Kubernetes artifacts needed to run training and inference workloads on AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia instances. Until now, […]

Migrating from AWS App Mesh to Amazon VPC Lattice

After careful consideration, we have made the decision to discontinue AWS App Mesh, effective September 30th, 2026. Until this date, existing AWS App Mesh customers will be able to use the service as normal, including creating new resources and onboarding new accounts via the AWS CLI and AWS CloudFormation. Additionally, AWS will continue to provide […]

AWS and Kubecost Collaborate to Deliver Kubecost 2.0 for Amazon EKS Users

Introduction In August 2022, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) announced the availability of an Amazon EKS-optimized bundle of Kubecost for cluster cost visibility. The bundle is available to Amazon EKS users free of charge and enables users to gain deeper cost insights into Kubernetes resources, such as namespace, cluster, pod, and organizational concepts (for […]

Migrating from AWS App Mesh to Amazon ECS Service Connect

After careful consideration, we have made the decision to discontinue AWS App Mesh, effective September 30th, 2026. Until this date, existing AWS App Mesh customers will be able to use the service as normal, including creating new resources and onboarding new accounts via the AWS CLI and AWS CloudFormation. Additionally, AWS will continue to provide […]

Announcing software version consistency for Amazon ECS services

Note: This blog post has been updated to reflect a change on 12th September 2024. Amazon ECS no longer modifies the containerImage field found in the DescribeTask or Task Metadata output. As part of the initial ECS software version consistency release the container image tag imageUri:tag was replaced with the container image digest imageUri@digest, this […]

Amazon VPC CNI introduces Enhanced Subnet Discovery

Amazon VPC CNI introduces Enhanced Subnet Discovery

Users modernizing their applications using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) on AWS often run into critical IPv4 address space exhaustion driven by scale. They want to maximize usage of the VPC CIDRs and subnets provisioned for the EKS pods without introducing additional operational complexity. We believe that use of IPv6 address space is the […]

Amazon Linux 2023 AMIs

Amazon EKS-Optimized Amazon Linux 2023 AMIs Now Available

Introduction We are excited to announce general availability of Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). AL2023 is the next generation of Amazon Linux from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and is designed to provide a secure, stable, high-performance environment to develop and run your cloud applications. The standard AL2023-based EKS-optimized Amazon […]