Building a Showback Dashboard for Cost Visibility with Serverless Architectures

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedBuilding a Showback Dashboard for Cost Visibility with Serverless Architectures Enterprises with centralized IT organizations and multiple lines of businesses frequently use showback or chargeback mechanisms to hold their departments accountable for their technology usage and costs. Chargeback involves actually billing a department for the cost of their division’s usage. Showback focuses on visibility…

Create a portable root CA using AWS CloudHSM and ACM Private CA

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedCreate a portable root CA using AWS CloudHSM and ACM Private CA With AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority (ACM Private CA) you can create private certificate authority (CA) hierarchies, including root and subordinate CAs, without the investment and maintenance costs of operating an on-premises CA. In this post, I will explain how you…

Using GitHub Actions to deploy serverless applications

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedUsing GitHub Actions to deploy serverless applications This post is written by Gopi Krishnamurthy, Senior Solutions Architect. Continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) is one of the major DevOps components. This allows you to build, test, and deploy your applications rapidly and reliably, while improving quality and reducing time to market. GitHub is an…

Increase Amazon Elasticsearch Service performance by upgrading to Graviton2

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedIncrease Amazon Elasticsearch Service performance by upgrading to Graviton2 Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) supports multiple instance types based on your use case. In 2021, AWS announced general purpose (M6g), compute optimized (C6g), and memory optimized (R6g, R6gd) instance types for Amazon ES version 7.9 or later powered by AWS Graviton2 processors, which delivers…