How Amazon Customer Service lowered Amazon Redshift costs and improved performance using RA3 nodes

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedHow Amazon Customer Service lowered Amazon Redshift costs and improved performance using RA3 nodes Amazon Customer Service solves exciting and challenging customer care problems for Amazon.com, the world’s largest online retailer. In 2021, the Amazon Customer Service Technology team upgraded its dense-compute nodes (dc2.8xlarge) to the Amazon Redshift RA3 instance family (ra3.16xlarge). Moving to…

Monitoring your EC2 server fleet with advanced CloudWatch agent capabilities

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedMonitoring your EC2 server fleet with advanced CloudWatch agent capabilities Customers who are running fleets of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances use advanced monitoring techniques to observe their operational performance. Capabilities like aggregated and custom dimensions help customers categorize and customize their metrics across server fleets for fast and efficient decision making.…

Field Notes: How to Integrate Your Non-Cloud-Native COTS Software with AWS for Batch Processing

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedField Notes: How to Integrate Your Non-Cloud-Native COTS Software with AWS for Batch Processing This post was co-written by Ashutosh Pateriya, AWS Partner Solutions Architect, GSI and Verny Quartara, Technology Architect, Infosys Ltd.  Integrating legacy or non cloud-native products and tools inside cloud-native applications is a common requirement for enterprise customers looking to migrate…

How to Integrate VMware Cloud on AWS Datastores with AWS Analytics Services

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedHow to Integrate VMware Cloud on AWS Datastores with AWS Analytics Services By Balakrishnan Nair, Specialist Solutions Architect at AWSBy Kiran Reid, Partner Solutions Architect at AWS Customers who run VMware on-premises are incorporating VMware Cloud on AWS into their hybrid cloud strategy due to the immense benefits of using the AWS Global Infrastructure.…

Search made simple: native Elastic integration with Azure—now in preview

By Dustin Ward

This post was co-authored by Rohit Tatachar, Senior Program Manager. With the ever-increasing adoption of cloud-based solutions, and the incredibly complex make-up of the application architectures; the ability to effectively manage, orchestrate, and monitor the scenarios for search, security, and operations are becoming very critical for the success of the businesses. As part of Microsoft…