Containers

Simplifying IAM Permissions for Amazon EKS Addons with EKS Pod Identity

This blog was authored by Sriram Ranganathan, Senior Product Manager, AWS and Vikram Venkataram, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS.  Introduction As part of AWS re:Invent 2023, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) launched Amazon EKS Pod Identity, simplifying how you apply AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions to your Kubernetes cluster workloads. Some EKS add-ons, which enable […]

Modify Amazon EBS volumes on Kubernetes with Volume Attributes Classes

This post was jointly authored by Kevin Liu (Senior PMT), Jens-Uwe Walther (Senior STAM-Containers), and Drew Sirenko (Software Dev Engineer). Introduction In this post, we explore how to modify Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes on Kubernetes without application downtime. Learn how to use the VolumeAttributesClass API alongside the Amazon EBS Container Storage Interface […]

End of support notifications and enhanced discoverability for Amazon EKS

This post was jointly authored by Praseeda Sathaye (Principal Solutions Architect, Containers & OSS), AJ Davis (AWS Enterprise Support) and Arvind Viswanathan (Principal Solutions Architect). Introduction In the rapidly evolving world of containerized applications, maintaining resilience and observability across Kubernetes environments has become a critical challenge. As organizations increasingly adopt Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon […]

AWS at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is headed to London for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025. Join us at Booth S300 in Excel London from April 1-4 to discover our latest innovations and learn how our customers, partners, and community members are transforming their businesses with Kubernetes. Experience hands-on demonstrations of AWS solutions that simplify Kubernetes operations, […]

Automating AL2023 custom hardened AMI updates for Amazon EKS managed nodes

This post was authored by Abhishek Nanda, Containers Specialist Solutions Architect and co-written with Jayaprakash Alawala, Principal Container Specialist Solutions Architect and Rajesh Singh, Sr. Containers Specialist BDM.  Introduction Amazon EKS users in the Regulatory and Compliance industry invest time and effort to build EKS custom AMIs for the worker nodes Operating System (OS) to […]

Organizational best practices for implementing EKS Anywhere at scale

This post was authored by Mihir Mangalvedhekar, Sr. GenAI Specialist, Next Gen Developer Experience, AWS and co-written with Rajbir Singh, Senior Technical Account Manager.  Many users are taking a container-first approach for on-premises workloads using Kubernetes. Amazon EKS Anywhere lets you create and operate Kubernetes clusters on your own infrastructure. EKS Anywhere builds on the […]

A deep dive into Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes

This blog was authored by Chris Splinter, Principal Product Manager, AWS Kubernetes, Elamaran Shanmugam, Sr. Container Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS, Re Alvarez Parmar, Containers Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS. We are excited to announce the general availability of a new feature for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) that we launched at re:Invent 2024 called Amazon […]

How webMethods iPaaS built a multi-tenant SaaS platform on Amazon EKS

This post was authored by Markus Kokott, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS and co-written with Balaji Balakrishnan, Head of Platform Services & DevOps, Santa Kumar Bethanapalli, Head of Cloud Operations & SRE, and Natarajan Ramani, Lead Platform Engineer, from webMethods iPaaS. Introduction In this post, we discuss webMethods’ journey in transitioning webMethods iPaaS into a successful […]

Optimize your container workloads for sustainability

This blog was authored by Karthik Rajendran, Senior Solutions Architect (AWS) and Isha Dua, Senior Solutions Architect (AWS).  The software architect’s job is mostly one of trade-offs, weighing the considerations of different approaches and then choosing the one that strikes the best balance. Some architects are surprised to find that, in the AWS Cloud at least, architecting […]

Announcing Bottlerocket FIPS variants

Introduction In 2020, AWS announced Bottlerocket, an open source, container-optimized Linux distribution designed for hosting containers. Each Bottlerocket image, known as a variant, is specialized for a specific combination of container orchestrator and cloud environment. Bottlerocket variants are provided to users as a set of Amazon Machine Images (AMI), currently optimized for either Amazon Elastic Container […]