AWS News Blog
Category: Amazon Elastic Container Service
AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Sonnet 4.5 in Amazon Bedrock, ECS Managed Instances, Builder ID updates, and more (October 6, 2025)
Last week, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5—the world’s best coding model according to SWE-Bench – became available in Amazon Q command line interface (CLI) and Kiro. I’m excited about this for two reasons: First, a few weeks ago I spent 4 intensive days with a global customer delivering an AI-assisted development workshop, where I experienced firsthand […]
Announcing Amazon ECS Managed Instances for containerized applications
Amazon ECS Managed Instances is a new compute option that eliminates infrastructure management overhead while giving you access to the broad suite of EC2 capabilities including the flexibility to select instance types, access reserved capacity, and advanced security and observability configurations.
AWS named as a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms and Container Management
AWS was named as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms in two consecutive years positioned highest on “Ability to Execute”, and for Container Management in three years positioned furthest for “Completeness of Vision”.
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Transform, Amazon Neptune, and more (September 8, 2025)
Summer has drawn to a close here in Utrecht, where I live in the Netherlands. In two weeks, I’ll be attending AWS Community Day 2025, hosted at the Kinepolis Jaarbeurs Utrecht on September 24. The single-day event will bring together over 500 cloud practitioners from across the Netherlands, featuring 25 breakout sessions across five technical […]
Accelerate safe software releases with new built-in blue/green deployments in Amazon ECS
Perform safer container application deployments without custom deployment tooling, enabling you to ship software updates more frequently with near-instantaneous rollback capability.
Enhance AI-assisted development with Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS and AWS Serverless MCP server
AWS introduces specialized Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for Amazon ECS, EKS, Finch and AWS Serverless, providing real-time contextual responses and service-specific guidance to guide AI assisted application development.
Amazon Inspector enhances container security by mapping Amazon ECR images to running containers
Amazon ECR image-to-container mapping that shows which images are actively running in containers and how widely they’re deployed, and extended vulnerability scanning support for minimal base images including scratch, distroless, and Chainguard containers.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Nova Premier, Amazon Q Developer, Amazon Q CLI, Amazon CloudFront, AWS Outposts, and more (May 5, 2025)
Last week I went to Thailand to attend the AWS Summit Bangkok. It was an energizing and exciting event. We hosted the Developer Lounge, where developers can meet, discuss ideas, enjoy lightning talks, win SWAGs at AWS Builder ID Prize Wheel, take a challenge at Amazon Q Developer Coding Challenge, or learn Generative AI at […]