Amazon EKS delivers Kubernetes as a managed
service on AWS; preview starts today
AWS Fargate lets customers run containers
without managing servers or clusters
Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an
Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), announced two new arrivals to
complement its existing popular Amazon Elastic Container Service
(Amazon ECS) and make it easier than ever to deploy, manage, and
scale container workloads on AWS. Amazon Elastic Container Service
for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) brings Kubernetes to AWS as a fully
managed service, making it easy for customers to run Kubernetes
applications on AWS without the need to become experts in operating
Kubernetes clusters. AWS also introduced a new capability called
AWS Fargate that allows customers to launch and run containers
without provisioning or managing servers or clusters. To learn more
about Amazon EKS and AWS Fargate
visit: https://aws.amazon.com/containers/.
“While we have over a hundred thousand active Amazon ECS
clusters running on AWS and more customers running Kubernetes on
AWS than on any other cloud, customers have also asked us to build
a managed Kubernetes service like we have with Amazon ECS,” said
Deepak Singh, GM of Containers and High Performance Computing
Services, AWS. “Not only have we delivered on this request with
Amazon EKS, but we’ve also made managed containers easier to use
than ever before by launching AWS Fargate to allow developers to
run containers at the task level rather than having to think about
servers or clusters.”
Amazon EKS: The best way to run Kubernetes on AWS
Today, customers are running virtually every type of container
orchestration and management service on AWS. In addition to Amazon
ECS, Kubernetes has also become very popular with AWS customers. A
recent survey from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation found that
63 percent of Kubernetes clusters running in the cloud are on AWS,
more than any other cloud platform. Before today, operating
Kubernetes with high availability required specialized expertise
and a great deal of manual work. Customers needed to install and
operate Kubernetes masters (which manage a customer’s clusters of
servers) across multiple Availability Zones (AZs), replace
unhealthy masters, and put measures in place to ensure that updates
do not cause application downtime. Amazon EKS removes this
complexity, making it easy for customers to run highly available
Kubernetes environments. Amazon EKS is the first cloud service to
deliver a highly available architecture that automatically
distributes Kubernetes masters across multiple AZs to eliminate a
single point of failure. This makes it easy for customers to deploy
their applications in a highly available fashion. Applications
running on Amazon EKS are resilient to the loss of a single master,
or even an entire AZ. Amazon EKS automatically detects and replaces
unhealthy masters, and it can automatically patch and perform
version upgrades for masters.
With Amazon EKS, launching a Kubernetes cluster is as easy as a
few clicks in the AWS Management Console. Amazon EKS handles the
rest, automating much of the heavy lifting involved in managing,
scaling, and upgrading Kubernetes clusters. Customers can run their
existing Kubernetes applications on Amazon EKS without any code
changes using existing Kubernetes tooling. In addition, customers
get all the performance, scale, reliability, and availability of
AWS, plus integrations with AWS networking and security services,
including Application Load Balancer, AWS Identity and Access
Management (AWS IAM), AWS PrivateLink, and AWS CloudTrail.
AWS Fargate – run containers without managing servers or
clusters
Container orchestration services like Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS
remove much of the heavy lifting involved in running containers at
scale, but customers still need to provision and scale server
instances and clusters, and patch the underlying Amazon EC2
instances. AWS Fargate makes running containers easier than ever by
eliminating the need to manage clusters of servers. Customers no
longer have to choose instance types, decide when to scale their
clusters, or optimize cluster utilization. All customers have to do
is define their applications as a ‘Task,’ which includes a list of
containers, CPU and memory requirements, networking definitions,
and AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) policies.
Customers can launch thousands of Tasks in seconds and only pay for
the resources in the Task—not for the infrastructure Tasks run on.
AWS Fargate is available for Amazon ECS now and will be coming to
Amazon EKS in 2018.
Realtor.com is a real estate listings website that allows
potential home buyers and sellers to search real estate property
records, houses, condos, and more online. "The transition to AWS
Fargate was very smooth, simple, and fast,” said Jean Domiguez,
Director of Cloud Services, Realtor.com. “This fundamentally
changes how we deliver containers by removing the need to optimize
container infrastructure and workload density. AWS Fargate is a
game changer in container cluster management and delivery."
Edmunds.com is an online resource for consumers to review car
information for new and used automobiles. “AWS Fargate allows us to
focus on developing and delivering features to our end-users while
it manages the service management nuances,” said Ajit Zadgaonkar,
Executive Director, Edmunds.com. “The abstraction at 'Task' level
is a brilliant step towards making it easier to develop highly
scalable microservices.”
AdRoll specializes in performance advertising marketing serving
over 16K business-to-business clients worldwide. “We’ve migrated a
number of applications into microservices, but there is still some
overhead required to manage the clusters,” said Valentino Volonghi,
CTO, AdRoll. “AWS Fargate gives even more teams the autonomy to
quickly experiment with a variety of new services, without
depending on an operations team. Basically, AWS Fargate lowers our
operational cost to gain even more agility with containers.”
Expedia is a global travel company that operates several
international online travel brands. “We’re excited to explore how
AWS Fargate could help reduce the current operational overhead
involved in managing Amazon ECS clusters,” said Matt Callahan,
Engineering Manager for Cloud Automation, Expedia. “This includes
monitoring and patching Amazon EC2 instances, tweaking cluster
auto-scaling, and right-sizing instances. During the AWS Fargate
customer beta testing we were impressed with the simplicity of
creating a new serverless Amazon ECS cluster without the need for a
complex AMI creation pipeline.”
About Amazon Web Services
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most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers
over 100 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases,
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(AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, and
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Availability Zones (AZs) across 16 geographic regions in the U.S.,
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Korea, Singapore, and the UK. AWS services are trusted by millions
of active customers around the world—including the fastest-growing
startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—to
power their infrastructure, make them more agile, and lower costs.
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