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Category: Amazon Elastic Container Service
AWS services scale to new heights for Prime Day 2025: key metrics and milestones
Amazon Prime Day 2025 achieved record-breaking sales with enhanced AI shopping features, while AWS infrastructure handled unprecedented volumes of data—including 1.7 trillion Lambda invocations per day, DynamoDB peaking at 151 million requests per second, and a 77% increase in Fargate container tasks—showcasing the massive scalability required to power the four-day shopping event.
Accelerate safe software releases with new built-in blue/green deployments in Amazon ECS
Perform safer container application deployments without custom deployment tooling, enabling you to ship software updates more frequently with near-instantaneous rollback capability.
Enhance AI-assisted development with Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS and AWS Serverless MCP server
AWS introduces specialized Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for Amazon ECS, EKS, Finch and AWS Serverless, providing real-time contextual responses and service-specific guidance to guide AI assisted application development.
Amazon Inspector enhances container security by mapping Amazon ECR images to running containers
Amazon ECR image-to-container mapping that shows which images are actively running in containers and how widely they’re deployed, and extended vulnerability scanning support for minimal base images including scratch, distroless, and Chainguard containers.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Nova Premier, Amazon Q Developer, Amazon Q CLI, Amazon CloudFront, AWS Outposts, and more (May 5, 2025)
Last week I went to Thailand to attend the AWS Summit Bangkok. It was an energizing and exciting event. We hosted the Developer Lounge, where developers can meet, discuss ideas, enjoy lightning talks, win SWAGs at AWS Builder ID Prize Wheel, take a challenge at Amazon Q Developer Coding Challenge, or learn Generative AI at […]
Container Insights with enhanced observability now available in Amazon ECS
With granular visibility into container workloads, CloudWatch Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon ECS enables proactive monitoring and faster troubleshooting, enhancing observability and improving application performance.
Streamline container application networking with built-in Amazon ECS support in Amazon VPC Lattice
Simplify networking for containerized apps with native VPC Lattice-ECS integration, boosting productivity and flexibility across services.
Celebrating 10 Years of Amazon ECS: Powering a Decade of Containerized Innovation
A decade of AWS innovation: Amazon ECS evolved from simplifying container orchestration to powering massive operations like Prime Day and enabling customers like SmugMug to seamlessly migrate petabytes of data and scale efficiently with “blazingly-fast” performance.