Field Notes: Build Dynamic IVR Menus with Amazon Connect and AWS Lambda

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedField Notes: Build Dynamic IVR Menus with Amazon Connect and AWS Lambda This post was co-written by Marius Cealera, Senior Partner Solutions Architect at AWS, and Zdenko Estok, Cloud Architect and DevOps Engineer at Accenture.  Modern interactive voice response (IVR) systems help customers find answers to their questions through a series of menus, usually…

Blue/Green deployment with AWS Developer tools on Amazon EC2 using Amazon EFS to host application source code

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedBlue/Green deployment with AWS Developer tools on Amazon EC2 using Amazon EFS to host application source code Many organizations building modern applications require a shared and persistent storage layer for hosting and deploying data-intensive enterprise applications, such as content management systems, media and entertainment, distributed applications like machine learning training, etc. These applications demand…

Introducing Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedIntroducing Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller I am pleased to announce the availability today of Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller, a Amazon Route 53 set of capabilities that continuously monitors an application’s ability to recover from failures and controls application recovery across multiple AWS Availability Zones, AWS Regions, and on premises environments…

Calculated fields, level-aware aggregations, and evaluation order in Amazon QuickSight

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedCalculated fields, level-aware aggregations, and evaluation order in Amazon QuickSight Amazon QuickSight is a fast, cloud-native, serverless, business intelligence service that makes it easy to deliver insights to everyone. QuickSight has carefully designed concepts and features that enable analysis builders, such as QuickSight authors, to design content-rich, interactive, and dynamic dashboards to share with…