Linux has become a dominant OS for application back ends and micro-services in the cloud. Usage limits (aka ulimits) are a critical Linux application performance tuning tool. Docker is now the leading ...

To make Kubernetes work at scale, you need a container orchestration tool that automates the management, deployment and scaling of your clusters. ECS is a scalable container orchestration platform AWS ...

Serverless AWS Lambda v Amazon ECS on Docker containers. Which of these pay-as-you-go compute services is for you? New Relic's Lee Atchison weighs them up Launched in parallel two and a half years ago ...

‘This is a big step forward over our current instance types, and it's why we're leading with Graviton,” said James Hamilton, vice president and distinguished engineer at AWS. ‘Even I was slightly ...

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The key difference between Amazon’s Fargate and AWS ECS is that ECS is a container orchestration service while Fargate is a serverless compute engine that runs containers without requiring you to ...

Naor Haziz’s discovery shows how a compromised container on EC2-backed ECS tasks can impersonate the ECS agent and steal IAM credentials from other tasks—without host access. At Black Hat USA 2025, ...