Category: Learning Levels

In this deep dive, we explore advanced scenarios with Argo CD including hub-and-spoke multi-cluster deployments, native AWS service integrations, multi-tenancy implementation, scaling with advanced Argo CD configurations and integration with CI/CD pipeline.

Today, we’re excited to announce that Amazon ECR Public now offers Chainguard Wolfi Images—security-hardened, minimalist base container images that dramatically reduce vulnerabilities in your containerized applications.

In this blog post, we’ll walk through how to build an automated thread dump analysis pipeline that uses Prometheus for monitoring, Grafana for alerting, AWS Lambda for orchestration, and Amazon Bedrock for AI‑powered analysis. The solution works on both Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), helping teams go from raw thread dumps to actionable insights within seconds of detecting an issue.

In this post, we explore advanced traffic routing patterns with the Kubernetes Gateway API through a practical Calendar web application example, demonstrating how it streamlines and standardizes application connectivity and service mesh integration in Kubernetes. The post covers three key use cases: exposing applications to external clients through hostname-based routing, implementing canary deployments between microservices using gRPC traffic splitting, and controlling egress traffic to external services with security policies.

In this post, we explore how to manage EKS Pod Identity associations at scale using Argo CD and AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK), addressing the critical challenge of the eventually consistent EKS Pod Identity API. The guide demonstrates automation techniques to ensure proper IAM role associations before application deployment, maintaining GitOps workflows while preventing permission-related failures.

In this post, we demonstrate how to generate comprehensive reports for Amazon ECR repositories that include cost breakdowns, usage metrics, security scan results, and compliance status across all repositories. The solution provides two types of reports: a Repository Summary report containing attributes for tracking and optimizing cost, usage, and OS vulnerabilities, and an Image-Level report for detailed analysis of specific repository images.

This post was coauthored by Jesse Gonzalez, Sr. Staff Site Reliability and Naveen Puvvula, Sr. Eng Manager, Reliability Engineering at Life360 Introduction Life360 offers advanced driving, digital, and location safety features and location sharing for the entire family. Since its launch in 2008, it has become an essential solution for modern life around the world, […]

Introduction Application Auto Scaling is a web service for developers and system administrators who need a solution for automatically scaling their scalable resources for AWS services such as Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) services, Amazon DynamoDB tables, AWS Lambda Provisioned Concurrency, and more. Application Auto Scaling now offers support for scaling such resources using […]

Introduction AWS App Runner is a fully managed service for running web applications and API servers with little to no infrastructure. It deploys your application containers in the AWS Cloud, automatically scaling and load-balancing requests. Once deployed your AWS App Runner service gets a service URL that your clients can send HTTPS requests to. In […]

Introduction The AWS Copilot CLI is a tool that since its launch in 2020, developers have been using to build, manage, and operate Linux and Windows containers on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), AWS Fargate, and AWS App Runner. In this post, I’ll walk you through how you can use AWS Copilot CLI to […]