Design a data mesh architecture using AWS Lake Formation and AWS Glue

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedDesign a data mesh architecture using AWS Lake Formation and AWS Glue Organizations of all sizes have recognized that data is one of the key enablers to increase and sustain innovation, and drive value for their customers and business units. They are eagerly modernizing traditional data platforms with cloud-native technologies that are highly scalable,…

Optimizing EC2 Workloads with Amazon CloudWatch

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedOptimizing EC2 Workloads with Amazon CloudWatch This post is written by David (Dudu) Twizer, Principal Solutions Architect, and Andy Ward, Senior AWS Solutions Architect – Microsoft Tech. In December 2020, AWS announced the availability of gp3, the next-generation General Purpose SSD volumes for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), which allow customers to provision…

Field Notes: How to Set Up Your Cross-Account and Cross-Region Database for Amazon Aurora

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedField Notes: How to Set Up Your Cross-Account and Cross-Region Database for Amazon Aurora This post was co-written by Ashutosh Pateriya, Solution Architect at AWS and Nirmal Tomar, Principal Consultant at Infosys Technologies Ltd.  Various organizations have stringent regulatory compliance obligations or business requirements that require an effective cross-account and cross-region database setup. We…

Extending an AWS CodeBuild environment for CPP applications

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedExtending an AWS CodeBuild environment for CPP applications AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed build service that offers curated Docker images. These managed images provide build environments for programming languages and runtimes such as Android, Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby, Docker, and .Net Core. However, there are a lot of existing CPP-based applications,…

Case-insensitive collation support for string processing in Amazon Redshift

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedCase-insensitive collation support for string processing in Amazon Redshift Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, cloud-native data warehouse. Tens of thousands of customers have successfully migrated their workloads to Amazon Redshift. We hear from customers that they need case-insensitive collation for strings in Amazon Redshift in order to maintain the same functionality and…