Understanding memory usage in your Java application with Amazon CodeGuru Profiler

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedUnderstanding memory usage in your Java application with Amazon CodeGuru Profiler “Where has all that free memory gone?” This is the question we ask ourselves every time our application emits that dreaded OutOfMemoyError just before it crashes. Amazon CodeGuru Profiler can help you find the answer. Thanks to its brand-new memory profiling capabilities, troubleshooting…

Bursting Your On-Premises Data Lake Analytics and AI Workloads on AWS

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedBursting Your On-Premises Data Lake Analytics and AI Workloads on AWS By Adit Madan, Product & Product Marketing Manager at Alluxio Data is being generated from a myriad of sources. That data is being crunched by analytics, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI) models to detect behavior from patterns and gather insights. Developing…

AWS Shield Advanced now provides mitigation metrics and network traffic timelines

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAWS Shield Advanced now provides mitigation metrics and network traffic timelines The AWS Shield Advanced dashboard now displays additional mitigation metrics and network traffic timeline details for events detected on protected resources. This also includes details about the actions automatically taken to mitigate DDoS attacks. You can use this information to more easily evaluate…

Running cost optimized Spark workloads on Kubernetes using EC2 Spot Instances

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedRunning cost optimized Spark workloads on Kubernetes using EC2 Spot Instances This post is written by Kinnar Sen, Senior Solutions Architect, EC2 Spot  Apache Spark is an open-source, distributed processing system used for big data workloads. It provides API operations to perform multiple tasks such as streaming, extract transform load (ETL), query, machine learning (ML),…

Azure Cost Management and Billing updates – January 2021

By Dustin Ward

Whether you’re a new student, thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you’re spending, where, and how to plan for the future. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the bill, and this is where Azure Cost Management and Billing comes in. We’re always looking…