AWS Security Profiles: Colm MacCárthaigh, Senior Principal Engineer

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAWS Security Profiles: Colm MacCárthaigh, Senior Principal Engineer In the weeks leading up to re:Invent, we’ll share conversations we’ve had with people at AWS who will be presenting, and get a sneak peek at their work. How long have you been at AWS and what do you do in your current role?…

Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights adds Automatic Application Discovery

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAmazon CloudWatch Application Insights adds Automatic Application Discovery Setting up monitoring for your enterprise applications got even easier with Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights new ability to automatically detect applications and setup monitoring based on the detected applications. CloudWatch Application Insights is a capability that helps customers easily setup monitoring and enhanced observability…

Why AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedWhy AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help One of the most exciting things about the Rust programming language is that it makes infrastructure incredibly boring. That’s not a bad thing, in this case. No one wants their electrical wiring to be exciting; most of us prefer the safety that…

Field Notes: Setting Up Disaster Recovery in a Different Seismic Zone Using AWS Outposts

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedField Notes: Setting Up Disaster Recovery in a Different Seismic Zone Using AWS Outposts Recovering your mission-critical workloads from outages is essential for business continuity and providing services to customers with little or no interruption. That’s why many customers replicate their mission-critical workloads in multiple places using a Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy…

AWS Well-Architected Framework in Serverless Part III: Reliability Pillar

By Dustin Ward

This is part three of the “Well-Architected in Serverless” series where we decipher the AWS Well-Architected Framework (WAF) pillars and translate them into real-life actions. In this article, we will focus on the AWS WAF Reliability (REL) pillar. The Reliability Pillar Unlike the Operational Excellence (OPS) and Security (SEC) pillars, the REL pillar is tradable.…