Posts in 2023
EKS News 062
Monday, September 18, 2023 in Archives
In this edition we feature several blogs on GPUs and how you can use them efficiently when running certain types of workloads. New AWS services and features Amazon EMR on EKS now supports managed Apache Flink (Public Preview) Customers who already …
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Tuesday, September 05, 2023 in Archives
This edition features 2 technologies powered by eBPF: native network policies using the VPC CNI plugin and the GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring agent. Network policies can be enabled on all new EKS clusters v1.25 and above. New AWS services and features …
EKS News 060
Thursday, August 24, 2023 in Archives
This week’s newsletter features an important network related announcement. After several years of anticipation, the NLB finally supports AWS Security Groups ! For those who are using Global Accelerator (GA) to route traffic between a service …
EKS News 059
Monday, August 14, 2023 in Archives
In this week’s newsletter we feature an episode of Containers from the Couch on API Priority and Fairness (APF) . APF is a way to give priority to certain API calls over other, lower priority, calls. The idea is to prevent the Kubernetes API server …
EKS News 058
Monday, August 07, 2023 in Archives
This edition features a couple of storage related announcements. The EFS CSI driver is now available as a managed addon. For those who struggled to install the driver manually, this should make installing and upgrading the CSI driver a lot simpler …
EKS News 057
Tuesday, August 01, 2023 in Archives
The newsletter editorial staff was on a summer hiatus for the last few weeks, but now, as the Gene Autry sang long ago, [we’re] “back in the saddle again .” In this latest edition, we’re tried to capture all of the major updates that have occurred …
EKS News 056
Friday, June 09, 2023 in Archives
Happy birthday EKS! It was 5 years ago that EKS was first launched. Since then it has seen tremendous growth and has added a lot of new capabilities with lots more on the way. This week we also celebrate the launch of container image signing and …
EKS News 055
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 in Archives
We hope those of you in the United States got to enjoy the long Memorial Day weekend. The big news from last week is the release of EKS 1.27! If you having been meaning to upgrade your cluster but aren’t sure where to begin, head on over to …
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Tuesday, May 23, 2023 in Archives
A subscriber sent me an email saying that last week’s newsletter should have been our DNS edition, #53. Using that logic, this should be our XNS (#54) edition (or MuSka52 trojan if you’re a black hat). It saddens me to share that AWS has decided to …
EKS News 053
Monday, May 15, 2023 in Archives
A few weeks have past since we published our last newsletter. Since then, we’ve released a handful of new features, including a new open-source way to do identity and access management called Cedar. This edition also features a couple of …