Containers

Migrate Amazon EC2 to ECS Express Mode using Kiro CLI and MCP servers

In this post, we’ll 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 ECS Express Mode. You’ll learn how to configure and use the AWS and ECS MCP Servers with Kiro CLI to automate critical migration tasks, from Dockerfile creation and image optimization to ECS service configuration and production deployment.

Beyond metrics: Extracting actionable insights from Amazon EKS with Amazon Q Business

In this post, we demonstrate a solution that uses Amazon Data Firehose to aggregate logs from the Amazon EKS control plane and data plane, and send them to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Finally, we use Amazon Q Business and its Amazon S3 connector to synchronize the logs, index the log data in Amazon S3, and enable a chat experience powered by the generative AI capabilities of Amazon Q Business.

Maximize Amazon EKS efficiency: How Auto Mode, Graviton, and Spot work together 

This blog post dives deeper into optimizing Amazon EKS Auto Mode clusters using AWS Graviton and Amazon EC2 Spot instances. AWS customers adopt AWS Graviton instances to achieve up to 40% higher price-performance ratio and up to 60% less energy to meet their sustainability goals. Additionally, AWS customers use Amazon EC2 Spot instances for eligible workloads to save up to 90% on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) On-Demand costs.

Simplify Kubernetes cluster management using ACK, kro and Amazon EKS

In this blog post, we show how to create and manage a fleet of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters using Kube Resource Orchestrator (kro), AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK), and Argo CD. These tools allow you to implement a GitOps-based cluster management solution to increase productivity and improve consistency and standardization by using the Kubernetes API for end-to-end operations.

Monitor Amazon ECS Events with Amazon EventBridge Filtering

In this post, we demonstrate how to capture specific Amazon ECS events using EventBridge rules for enhanced monitoring and troubleshooting of your containerized applications. We show you how to customize EventBridge filtering patterns to capture the specific Amazon ECS events that matter for your troubleshooting and monitoring needs.