Using Amazon MQ as an event source for AWS Lambda

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedUsing Amazon MQ as an event source for AWS Lambda Amazon MQ is a managed, highly available message broker for Apache ActiveMQ. The service manages the provisioning, setup, and maintenance of ActiveMQ. Now, with Amazon MQ as an event source for AWS Lambda, you can process messages from the service. This allows…

A New Integration for CloudWatch Alarms and OpsCenter

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedA New Integration for CloudWatch Alarms and OpsCenter Over a year ago, I wrote about the Launch of a feature in AWS Systems Manager called OpsCenter, which allows customers to aggregate issues, events, and alerts into one place and make it easier for operations engineers and IT professionals to investigate and remediate…

Proactively manage the Spot Instance lifecycle using the new Capacity Rebalancing feature for EC2 Auto Scaling

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedProactively manage the Spot Instance lifecycle using the new Capacity Rebalancing feature for EC2 Auto Scaling By Deepthi Chelupati and Chad Schmutzer AWS now offers Capacity Rebalancing for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, a new feature for proactively managing the Amazon EC2 Spot Instance lifecycle in an Auto Scaling group. Capacity Rebalancing complements…

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Database Mail

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAmazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Database Mail Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Database Mail. With Database Mail you can send email messages from your Amazon RDS for SQL Server database instance. After specifying the email recipient(s), you can add files or query results to the message you send.