This document provides an overview of AWS services for containers and microservices including AWS App Mesh for managing microservices, AWS Cloud Map for discovering services, and Firecracker for running containers securely and efficiently at scale. It discusses how these services work, their benefits, and demonstrates Firecracker. The document concludes by thanking the audience.

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Ric Harvey, Technical Developer Evangelist
@ric__harvey
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2. AWS App Mesh

3. Miroservices to Service Mesh
Service Mesh Plane (Routing, Monitoring,
Security)
Service
A
Service
B
Side
Car
Side
Car

4. Easily monitor and control microservices App Mesh with Amazon ECS
and Amazon EKS to better run containerized microservices at scale
Microservice C
Microservice CMicroservice C
Before After

5. Why AWS App Mesh?

6. Based on Envoy Proxy

7. How to AWS App Mesh?

8. How to AWS App Mesh?

9. AWS Cloud Map

10. Easily create and maintain custom maps of your applications
Before
Version 2
After
Version 2

12. aws servicediscovery discover-instances --namespace-name myapp.com --service-name frontend --
query-parameters version=1.0,active=yes
{
"Instances": [
{
"InstanceId": "1",
"NamespaceName": "myapp.com",
"ServiceName": "users",
"HealthStatus": "HEALTHY",
"Attributes": {
"version":"1.0",
"active":"yes",
"stage":"beta",
"AWS_INSTANCE_IPV4": "54.20.10.2" }
}
]
}

13. Firecracker

14. Running Containers & Serverless at scale
Different security
boundaries than
instances
Inefficient resource
utilization

15. Firecracker Architecture and Benefits
RESTful
API
Networks Storage
Rate Limiting
Metadata
• Firecracker microVMs have the same security
as KVM VMs
• Designed for low overhead, high density, and
fast start times
• Built-in fair sharing

16. Secure FastOpen Efficient
AVAILABLE THROUGH OPEN SOURCE
UNDER APACHE 2.0 LICENSE
https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker

17. Firecracker
Added integration

18. Demo time!

19. Thank you!
Ric Harvey, Technical Developer Evangelist
@ric__harvey