Speed up your Amazon Athena queries using partition projection

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedSpeed up your Amazon Athena queries using partition projection This post is co-written with Steven Wasserman of Vertex, Inc. Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage,…

Using bus-to-bus event routing with Amazon EventBridge

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedUsing bus-to-bus event routing with Amazon EventBridge Using Amazon EventBridge, you can now route events between different event buses in the same Region and same AWS account. Combined with the ability to route events cross-Region, this provides you with significant flexibility in routing events in your workloads. This blog post explains how to use…

How to verify AWS KMS signatures in decoupled architectures at scale

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedHow to verify AWS KMS signatures in decoupled architectures at scale AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) makes it easy to create and manage cryptographic keys in your applications. The service supports both symmetric and asymmetric customer master keys (CMKs). The asymmetric CMKs offer digital signature capability, which data consumers can use to verify…

Fast and Secure Account Governance with Customizations for AWS Control Tower

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedFast and Secure Account Governance with Customizations for AWS Control Tower Organizations around the world value a secure, well-architected, AWS environment that provides a strong foundation for their cloud operations. They seek a multi-account strategy that delivers operational excellence, security, reliability, performance, and cost optimization of their AWS resources now and into the future.…