The first Fargate inline scanning increases visibility and reduces risk By extending the Amazon ECR integration to listen for Fargate tasks, Sysdig triggers automated scans directly within Amazon ECR.

AWS today quietly brought spot capacity to Fargate, its serverless compute engine for containers that supports both the company’s Elastic Container Service and, now, its Elastic Kubernetes service.

When it comes to abstracting away infrastructure, though, Fargate does this for containers, but it’s worth noting that a serverless product like AWS Lambda takes it even further.

Now, with AWS Fargate for Amazon EKS, customers can run Kubernetes-based applications on AWS without the need to manage servers and clusters.

Sysdig said that besides being able to detect runtime threats in AWS Fargate, it can also provide detailed audit and response capabilities.

As the battle for container services heats up, AWS is upping its already strong game. New services across the portfolio were announced both during and before re:Invent, including upgrades to Fargate.

Today at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, the company announced that Elastic Kubernetes Service is available on Fargate. EKS is Amazon’s flavor of Kubernetes. Fargate is a service announced in 2017 ...