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A staging service used during a 40-hour workweek still runs 168 hours a week if its ECS desired count stays above zero. That does not mean you can c…
I Stopped Managing Servers Manually — Understanding Docker, Amazon ECR, ECS & Fargate I had already learned how a web application can be built o…
"Should we use EKS?" is one of the most over-answered-with-yes questions in AWS. Kubernetes is powerful, but it's not free, in money or operational…
Our ECS Fargate Task Was Silently Failing for Days — Here's Exactly How We Found It No alarm fired. No Slack alert. No PagerDuty page. Just a servic…
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) taught a generation of software engineers to model complex domains by creating class hierarchies. In games and rea…
How Amazon ECS Deployment Circuit Breaker Detects Failures Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service) uses a deployment circuit breaker to automatically…
How to Prepare ECS Fargate for SOC 2 Compliance Originally published at https://fortem.dev/blog/ecs-compliance-soc2 AWS being SOC 2 certified doesn'…
How to Control CloudWatch Logs Costs on ECS? Originally published at https://fortem.dev/blog/cloudwatch-costs-ecs ECS sends all logs to CloudWatch w…
ECS Service Discovery: Cloud Map vs Service Connect Originally published at https://fortem.dev/blog/ecs-service-discovery-guide Cloud Map, Service C…
Your AWS bill shows CloudWatch at $400 this month. You have 15 ECS services logging INFO-level with retention set to Never Expire. You didn't config…
Prepare Docker Image at ECR If you don't have an image at ECR, please check this article and get it. Push Docker image to AWS ECR In this article, I…
Deploy a Secure Containerized App on Amazon ECS Fargate Using ECR and Secrets Manager In this hands-on guide, you'll learn how to: ✅ Build and conta…
Most ECS blue-green deployment tutorials eventually lead to the same stack: AWS CodeDeploy Deployment groups AppSpec files Lifecycle hooks Weighted…
If you have been using AWS Copilot CLI to deploy containers on ECS, the tool has a date on it. AWS Copilot CLI reaches end of support on June 12, 20…
Originally published on graycloudarch.com . The morning after go-live, the first thing I looked at was CPU. One of the two delivery services was sit…