If you’re running PHP applications in AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), you might have encountered the dreaded “PHP-FPM throttling” issue. It’s a frustrating problem that can lead to sluggish performance, dropped connections, and unhappy users. Let’s dive into what causes this throttling and how you can banish it from your EKS cluster.
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Monitoring your AWS cloud spend is critical, but connecting your entire AWS environment to a third-party observability platform can feel risky. Many standard tutorials suggest using the ReadOnlyAccess policy, which exposes your compute metrics, database logs, and network traffic.
AWS Fargate is a serverless compute service that abstracts the underlying infrastructure, including the instanceType. This can be challenging when you need to determine the exact type of instance your container is running on. However, there’s a straightforward way to uncover this information.