AWS Proton

2020: AWS Proton start - service for start of container and besserverny applications

At the beginning of December, 2020 Amazon announced service for start of the container and besserverny AWS Proton applications. It is provided at the annual re conference: Invent and at the time of the announcement already works, but as the public preliminary version (public preview).

AWS Proton is positioned by Amazon as first completely managed by service of deployment of applications for container and besserverny applications. Teams of platform developers can use Proton for connection and coordination of the different tools necessary for providing infrastructure, deployment of the code, monitoring and updates.

AWS Proton is service for start of container and besserverny applications

Service is intended to help the developers who are engaged in infrastructure, to manage microservices and to update infrastructure, without affecting productivity of developers, explained in Amazon. Also in the company noted following features of a product:

• AWS Proton is integrated with widely used CI/CD systems and instruments of observation, such as CodePipeline and CloudWatch;

• provides the supervised templates which follow the best practices of AWS for cases of the general use, such as web services working for AWS Fargate or applications of stream processing created on AWS Lambda;

• collects information on an application deployment status, for example, about the last date of its successful deployment.

During the performance on re: Invent the head of department of AWS Andy Yassi told that clients still have containers which need to be started locally, but they also need the same mechanisms of management, as in a cloud. For this purpose the company announced the solutions ECS Anywhere and EKS Anywhere which allow clients to start container services both in local, and in cloud infrastructure.^[1]

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