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Explanation 3
- Updated 2026-06-02
ECR Pull-Through Cache
The ECR Pull-Through Cache (PTC) is an AWS-managed feature that transparently mirrors container images from upstream public registries into your own Amazon ECR. Skyscrapers uses it to guard your EKS clusters from upstream registry outages and rate limits, …
- Updated 2026-05-12
Ingress
Overview An Ingress Controller is a specialized load balancer for Kubernetes that manages external access to services within a cluster. While Kubernetes Services expose applications internally, an Ingress Controller acts as the entry point for HTTP/HTTPS …
- Updated 2026-05-12
MongoDB Atlas
We standardise on MongoDB Atlas service four our customer’s MongoDB clusters. Atlas is a fully-managed service to deploy, manage and monitor MongoDB clusters. It’s multi-cloud, so you can choose from various cloud providers to deploy your …
How-to guides 2
- Updated 2026-06-02
How-to use the ECR Pull-Through Cache
This guide covers how to enable the ECR Pull-Through Cache for your clusters. The default tier (quay.io and registry.k8s.io) is fully managed by Skyscrapers; there is nothing for you to do. The opt-in tiers (docker.io, ghcr.io, registry.gitlab.com) require …
- Updated 2026-05-12
AWS Load Balancer Controller
Introduction This page describes how to use the AWS Load Balancer Controller as Ingress Controller in your Kubernetes cluster. The ALB controller provisions AWS Application Load Balancers for your Kubernetes Ingress resources. Pre-requisites First …
Changelog (2025) 6
- 2025-12-08
Migrated to new ECR Basic Scanning version
We have successfully migrated all managed AWS accounts to the new version of ECR Basic Scanning, which uses Amazon’s native scanning technology. What Changed ECR Basic Scanning: Upgraded from the previous version to AWS_NATIVE scanning technology …
- 2025-12-04
New Feature: Seekable OCI Parallel Pull mode for Amazon EKS
We have implemented support for an experimental feature called Seekable OCI (SOCI) parallel pull mode in our node pools. This enhancement allows for faster and more efficient container image pulls by enabling parallel downloads of image layers, …
- 2025-12-04
New Feature: S3 CSI Driver for EKS Clusters
We are excited to announce support for the S3 Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver on our EKS clusters. This new feature allows Kubernetes workloads to seamlessly interact with Amazon S3 storage, enabling applications to read and write data directly to …
- 2025-09-23
OpenSearch maintenance: improved monitoring and upgrading to 2.19
We have redone our OpenSearch monitoring setup to rely on the CloudWatch integration instead of using elasticsearch-exporter. This allows us to monitor metrics more reliably and closer to the AWS setup. You will also notice a brand new Grafana dashboard …
- 2025-09-22
Enhanced AWS Backup Mechanism Released
We are excited to announce a new and improved backup mechanism for AWS resources, powered by AWS Backup. This allows us to create backups on custom intervals and custom retention periods (next to the built in backups of the components). Next to that the …
- 2025-01-22
New beta feature: Kubecost
We are excited to announce that we have added Kubecost as an optional feature to our Platform. Kubecost is a tool that helps you to manage your Kubernetes costs by providing visibility into your AWS and Kubernetes resource usage and costs. At the moment we …