Category: Technical How-to

Running an OpenTelemetry collector as a sidecar in every Amazon ECS task does not scale across a multi-account estate, and it cannot run at all on Windows. Learn how to replace per-task sidecars with a single centralized ADOT gateway that ingests OTLP from workloads across accounts and exports traces to AWS X-Ray and metrics and logs to Amazon CloudWatch.

On Amazon EKS Auto Mode, node failures are detected, drained, and replaced automatically before anyone reaches for a laptop. This post shows how the Node Monitoring Agent and Karpenter form a detect-and-replace cycle that runs by default, why specific faults trigger node replacement, and how to collect node diagnostics without SSH.

Amazon ECS Express Mode gives you load balancing, scaling, logging, and networking out of the box. Learn how to extend an Express Mode service beyond its defaults with three hands-on examples: turning on ECS Exec, adding a scheduled scaling policy, and adding a FireLens log router as a sidecar container.

Deploy a single CloudFormation stack that builds a GPU batch inference pipeline on Amazon ECS Managed Instances. It uses Amazon SQS for job buffering and Application Auto Scaling to scale to zero when idle, so you pay only for active inference time.

In this post, we walk you through three main steps: First, you create an AWS CodeConnections host in your VPC with connectivity to your private Git server. Second, you establish a connection that Argo CD can use. Finally, you deploy a sample application to verify the integration. By the end, you have a secure way to deploy applications from private repositories.

In this post, you walk through a practical migration scenario where a Node.js web application running on EC2 instances is migrated into a highly scalable, containerized service on EKS Auto Mode. You will learn how to configure and use the AWS and Amazon EKS MCP Servers with Kiro CLI to automate critical migration tasks from Dockerfile creation and image optimization to Kubernetes manifest generation and production deployment on EKS Auto Mode.

In this post, we demonstrate how to use Envoy’s External Processing filter (ext_proc) to solve this challenge on Amazon EKS. This solution captures complete request and response data without modifying application code, providing the compliance-grade audit trails that regulators require.

This post demonstrates how AWS DevOps Agent diagnoses Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) API server performance degradation, specifically 429 throttling and API Priority and Fairness (APF) seat exhaustion.

In this post, you will learn how Amazon EKS Auto Mode and Istio Ambient Mesh work together to automate infrastructure management while providing automatic mTLS-based service-to-service security, helping reduce operational overhead and designed to help strengthen your security posture.

This post demonstrates an automated solution that combines AI-powered risk analysis with GitOps principles to streamline Amazon EKS AMI updates while maintaining appropriate human oversight through familiar GitHub workflows.