Thread by @onurfz

New launch! Starting today, @awscloud #AppRunner services can communicate with private endpoints hosted in your VPCs. Simply create a VPC connector by specifying subnet(s) and security group(s) to control egress access from your service to your VPC. /1
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If you are not already familiar with AWS #AppRunner, here is a mini thread with useful links to get started. It is easy to get a secure, auto-scaled, highly-available web app running within a few minutes: /2

https://twitter.com/onurfz/status/1394804464494645248

#AppRunner is built on #ECS #Fargate. VPC connectors are a new, simple, secure and scalable option for your containers to privately access your VPCs in Fargate, exposed in #AppRunner. /3
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Instead of creating a new ENI for each task, a single VPC connector allows all instances of your containers to access VPCs through a single Fargate-managed ENI per subnet. This means you don't have to worry about IP address management for your containers. /4

All flows initiated by your #AppRunner service are routed via this managed ENI to your VPC, NAT'ed to a private IP address, and follows the same routes and security group rules in your VPC as any other traffic, giving you full control over it. /5

Managed #AppRunner traffic such as incoming HTTP requests and your responses, image pulls and logs are still routed over the managed App Runner and Fargate cell VPCs, so you don't need to configure anything. It just works. /6

VPC private access is leveraging AWS Hyperplane, an internal distributed network function virtualization service that underpins many of the AWS services such as NLB, PrivateLink, Lambda, and now #AppRunner & #Fargate. Video from re:Invent 2017 keynote: /7

You can also create a NAT gateway to give your service access to the public internet.
There is no additional cost for using VPC connectors. Standard pricing applies for any traffic going through VPC endpoints or NAT gateways in your VPC. /8

And of course, AWS #Copilot supports #AppRunner, including services with VPC access starting with v1.15. Follow @efekarakus for more in that space: /9

https://twitter.com/efekarakus/status/1491194119301267457

If you are not familiar with AWS Copilot, start by reading this post by @nathankpeck. One stop shop for containers development. /10
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AWS container services is firing on all cylinders and hiring for all positions! We have opportunities ranging from managed apps in #AppRunner (follow @ArchanaSrikanta for more in this space), serverless containers in #ECS #Fargate, K8s in #EKS, ... /11
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container registries in #ECR, to runtimes in containerd and Firecracker!
As always, we are looking forward to your feedback. Leave a comment in our public roadmap. /12
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Read @ArchanaSrikanta 's blog post for a deep dive.

https://twitter.com/ArchanaSrikanta/status/1491506623835033600