“We recently announced our batch support for EKS, our managed Kubernetes offering at AWS,” said Ian Colle (pictured), general manager of HPC at AWS.

“In the past, many AWS customers have built their own batch processing systems using EC2 instances, containers, notifications, CloudWatch monitoring, and so forth.

Amazon’s new AWS Batch allows engineers to execute a series of jobs automatically, in the cloud. The tool lets you run apps and container images on whatever EC2 instances are required to ...