Proactively manage the Spot Instance lifecycle using the new Capacity Rebalancing feature for EC2 Auto Scaling

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedProactively manage the Spot Instance lifecycle using the new Capacity Rebalancing feature for EC2 Auto Scaling By Deepthi Chelupati and Chad Schmutzer AWS now offers Capacity Rebalancing for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, a new feature for proactively managing the Amazon EC2 Spot Instance lifecycle in an Auto Scaling group. Capacity Rebalancing complements…

A New Integration for CloudWatch Alarms and OpsCenter

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedA New Integration for CloudWatch Alarms and OpsCenter Over a year ago, I wrote about the Launch of a feature in AWS Systems Manager called OpsCenter, which allows customers to aggregate issues, events, and alerts into one place and make it easier for operations engineers and IT professionals to investigate and remediate…

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Database Mail

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAmazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Database Mail Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Database Mail. With Database Mail you can send email messages from your Amazon RDS for SQL Server database instance. After specifying the email recipient(s), you can add files or query results to the message you send. 

Deploying reinforcement learning in production using Ray and Amazon SageMaker

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedDeploying reinforcement learning in production using Ray and Amazon SageMaker Reinforcement learning (RL) is used to automate decision-making in a variety of domains, including games, autoscaling, finance, robotics, recommendations, and supply chain. Launched at AWS re:Invent 2018, Amazon SageMaker RL helps you quickly build, train, and deploy policies learned by RL. Ray…