Author: Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedBuilding complex workflows with Amazon MWAA, AWS Step Functions, AWS Glue, and Amazon EMR Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) is a fully managed service that makes it easy to run open-source versions of Apache Airflow on AWS and build workflows to run your extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs…

Amazon Web Services FeedAccount and VPC Considerations for VMware Cloud on AWS By Schneider Larbi, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect at AWS VMware Cloud on AWS is a service that is jointly engineered by VMware and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to allow customers to run VMware workloads on the global AWS infrastructure. During the deployment phase…

Amazon Web Services FeedAmazon Aurora supports in-place upgrades from MySQL 5.6 to 5.7 Starting today, you can perform an in-place upgrade of your Amazon Aurora database cluster from MySQL major version 5.6 to 5.7. Instead of backing up and restoring the database to the new version, you can upgrade with just a few clicks in…

Amazon Web Services FeedOptimizing Lambda functions packaged as container images AWS Lambda launched support for packaging and deploying functions as container images at re:Invent 2020. In this post you learn how to build container images that reduce image size as well as build, deployment, and update time. Lambda container images have unique characteristics to consider…

Amazon Web Services FeedImproving zlib-cloudflare and comparing performance with other zlib forks The zlib compression library is widely used to compress and decompress data. This library is utilized by popular programs like the Java Development Kit (JDK), Linux distributions, libpng, Git, and many others. Because zlib is widely adopted, the maintainer of the original version…