Speeding up a Windows container startup time

What if we could have a solution for all the problems mentioned previously so that the Windows container startup could avoid all these operations happening under the hood during the EC2 Windows container host initialization?

Here is where a container image cache strategy comes into play, and all we want is to create a custom AMI that already has all these container layers downloaded and extracted before joining the Amazon ECS or EKS cluster, so when the EC2 Windows container host joins the cluster, the container orchestrator will schedule the container. All the previously mentioned problems won’t happen since the container runtime will check whether the image is already present locally. If so, it will just check the container image metadata and run the container.

Extending EC2 Image Builder with custom components

In Chapter 13, Working with Ephemeral Hosts, we dove deep into how EC2 Image Builder allows us to build custom...