AWS Open Source Blog

In today’s fast-paced software development landscape, containerization has become an essential tool for building and deploying applications. With all the necessary tools and dependencies encapsulated in a container, developers can effortlessly set up and replicate development environments on various machines. The key steps involved in building and running containers typically include: Building container images using […]

With the addition of Linux support, Finch now provides a consistent container development experience across all major operating systems, making it easier for developers to run familiar Finch commands to build, run, and publish their containers.

The OpenSearch project is moving to The Linux Foundation to become the OpenSearch Software Foundation.

Learn how to use open source Dapr on AWS for service invocation, pub/sub communication, workflow, and state management.

This is the fourth blog post of our “Istio on EKS” series. In this blog post, we’ll explore how Istio, a powerful service mesh, enables organizations to implement a zero trust security model on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). We will start by understanding how Istio implements peer authentication between microservices by Mutual Transport […]

With the release of version 1.3.0, the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) introduces several enhancements designed to further standardize and help streamline cybersecurity data management. OCSF is a collaborative, open source effort by AWS and leading partners in the cybersecurity industry, which provides a standard schema for common security events, defines versioning criteria to facilitate […]

AWS recently announced that Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) now supports version 1.1 of the Open Container Initiative (OCI) Image and Distribution specifications. This latest version includes support for image referrers, as well as significant enhancements for distribution of non-image artifacts. We are excited about this set of new capabilities, which helps customers more […]

Large-scale, distributed compute framework migrations are not for the faint of heart. There are backwards-compatibility constraints to maintain, performance expectations to meet, scalability limits to overcome, and the omnipresent risk of introducing breaking changes to production. This all becomes especially troubling if you happen to be migrating away from something that successfully processes exabytes of […]

Cilium is an open source solution for providing, securing, and observing network connectivity between workloads, powered by the revolutionary kernel technology called extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF). eBPF enables the dynamic insertion of security, visibility, and networking logic into the Linux kernel. Cilium provides high-performance networking, advanced load balancing, transparent encryption, and observability. Cilium was […]

Sustainability Scanner is an open source tool designed to help customers create a more sustainable infrastructure on AWS by evaluating your infrastructure as code against a set of sustainability best practices and suggested improvements to apply to your code.