AWS Containers Tech Brief

Your regular update on AWS container services and technologies.

The Containers Tech Brief is your regular update on the state of containers in the AWS cloud. This month, we're highlighting several new feature announcements as well as several interactive tutorials and new deep-dive blogs. Whether you're looking for strategy or technical inspiration, read on.

New Features & Regions In January, we announced that Amazon ECS and Amazon ECR are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) region. This region allows you to host sensitive Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), and all types of regulated workloads. Learn more » Also, Amazon ECS now supports Docker version 17.09.01-ce. Learn more »

Start Building If you're ready to get hands on with containers, we have two tutorials you can try right now. Break the Monolith! walks you through how to take a monolithic node.js application and deploy it as containerized microservices using Amazon ECS and the Application Load Balancer. Start Building » The new AWS Fargate First-run Experience shows you how to deploy containers without having to manage any of the underlying infrastructure. Try it now » Also, we've updated our Getting Started page with brand new videos explaining the core concepts of Amazon ECS, including how to write task definitions, set up auto scaling, and CloudWatch Monitoring. Watch now »

Technical Blogs Developer Advocate, Tiffany Jernigan breaks down how Amazon Elastic Container Service works in her blog, "Building Blocks of Amazon ECS." AWS Fargate is a new technology that lets you run containers without managing servers or clusters. Developer Advocate, Nathan Peck's blog shows you common patterns for implementing task-level networking with AWS Fargate. Building microservices? Start on the AWS Microservices overview page then step through a real-world example for building containerized microservices on AWS with Deploying Java Microservices on Amazon ECS. If you're looking for strategic guidance, dive deep into how to build containerized microservices following the 12-factor app pattern with our whitepaper. Finally, learn how to set up a continuous delivery pipeline for containers using AWS CodePipeline and Amazon ECS.

Customer Stories Check out how developers are using containers to drive innovation and accelerate projects. See how TIBCO Simplr streamlined DevOps workflows, cut its server footprint by 40 percent, and decreased system response time to seconds by implementing containerized microservices on AWS. Learn more » Hear Prakash Janakiraman, cofounder and CTO at Nextdoor, describe how Nextdoor's engineering teams achieved an almost 10x improvement in build and deployment times switching to microservices running on Docker containers using Amazon ECS. Learn more »

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