Optimizing Amazon EMR for resilience and cost with capacity-optimized Spot Instances

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedOptimizing Amazon EMR for resilience and cost with capacity-optimized Spot Instances Amazon EMR now supports the capacity-optimized allocation strategy for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Spot Instances for launching Spot Instances from the most available Spot Instance capacity pools by analyzing capacity metrics in real time. You can now specify up…

AWS Organizations, AWS Config, and Terraform

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAWS Organizations, AWS Config, and Terraform In this post, I show how you can use AWS Organizations, AWS Config, and HashiCorp’s Terraform to deploy guardrails at scale. AWS Config provides configuration, compliance, and auditing features that are required for governing your resources and providing security posture assessment at scale. With its recent…

Field Notes: Migrating a Self-managed Kubernetes Cluster on Amazon EC2 to Amazon EKS

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedField Notes: Migrating a Self-managed Kubernetes Cluster on Amazon EC2 to Amazon EKS AWS customers from startups to enterprises have been successfully running Kubernetes clusters on Amazon EC2 instances since 2015, well before Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), was launched in 2018. As a fully managed Kubernetes service, Amazon EKS customers…

How to automate incident response in the AWS Cloud for EC2 instances

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedHow to automate incident response in the AWS Cloud for EC2 instances One of the security epics core to the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) is a focus on incident response and preparedness to address unauthorized activity. Multiple methods exist in Amazon Web Services (AWS) for automating classic incident response techniques,…