Announcing Amazon EKS Capabilities for workload orchestration and cloud resource management

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Capabilities, an extensible set of Kubernetes-native solutions that streamline workload orchestration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud resource management, and Kubernetes resource composition and orchestration. These fully managed, integrated platform capabilities include open source Kubernetes solutions that many customers are using today, such as Argo CD, AWS…

Amazon Route 53 launches Accelerated recovery for managing public DNS records

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing Amazon Route 53 Accelerated recovery for managing public DNS records, a new Domain Name Service (DNS) business continuity feature that is designed to provide a 60-minute recovery time objective (RTO) during service disruptions in the US East (N. Virginia) AWS Region. This enhancement ensures that customers can continue making DNS changes and…

Build production-ready applications without infrastructure complexity using Amazon ECS Express Mode

By Dustin Ward

Deploying containerized applications to production requires navigating hundreds of configuration parameters across load balancers, auto scaling policies, networking, and security groups. This overhead delays time to market and diverts focus from core application development. Today, I’m excited to announce Amazon ECS Express Mode, a new capability from Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) that helps…

Introducing VPC encryption controls: Enforce encryption in transit within and across VPCs in a Region

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing virtual private cloud (VPC) encryption controls, a new capability of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) that helps you audit and enforce encryption in transit for all traffic within and across VPCs in a Region. Organizations across financial services, healthcare, government, and retail face significant operational complexity in maintaining encryption compliance across…