Automated CloudFormation Testing Pipeline with TaskCat and CodePipeline

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAutomated CloudFormation Testing Pipeline with TaskCat and CodePipeline Researchers at Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) use programs such as Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) and Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) to interact with healthcare data. Our internal team at AWS has provided solutions such as OHDSI-on-AWS and REDCap environments on AWS…

Troubleshooting Amazon API Gateway with enhanced observability variables

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedTroubleshooting Amazon API Gateway with enhanced observability variables Amazon API Gateway is often used for managing access to serverless applications. Additionally, it can help developers reduce code and increase security with features like AWS WAF integration and authorizers at the API level. Because more is handled by API Gateway, developers tell us…

Introducing larger state payloads for AWS Step Functions

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedIntroducing larger state payloads for AWS Step Functions AWS Step Functions allows you to create serverless workflows that orchestrate your business processes. Step Functions stores data from workflow invocations as application state. Today we are increasing the size limit of application state from 32,768 characters to 256 kilobytes of data per workflow…

Amazon WorkDocs supports auto provisioning for all directory users

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAmazon WorkDocs supports auto provisioning for all directory users Starting today, provisioning your WorkDocs site to all of your directory users is made easy. When provisioning your WorkDocs site, all directory users are provided a valid WorkDocs account, enabling each directory user to sign in and begin using full WorkDocs functionality as…

Fast and predictable performance with serverless compilation using Amazon Redshift

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedFast and predictable performance with serverless compilation using Amazon Redshift Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing business intelligence (BI) tools. Customers tell us that they want extremely fast query response times…