Send real-time alerts about application anomalies using AWS X-Ray insights

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedSend real-time alerts about application anomalies using AWS X-Ray insights Today AWS X-Ray launches support for notifications to its insights. This means that on an X-Ray group where insights are enabled, you can now configure notifications to be sent to Amazon EventBridge. Through the use of anomaly detection, AWS X-Ray helps you…

AWS Glue crawlers now support Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB collections

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAWS Glue crawlers now support Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB collections AWS Glue crawlers now support Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB collections. You can now use AWS Glue crawlers to infer schema of Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB collections and create or update a table in…

Detecting playful animal behavior in videos using Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedDetecting playful animal behavior in videos using Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels Historically, humans have observed animal behaviors and applied them for different purposes. For example, behavioral observation is important in animal ecology, such as how often the behaviors are, when the behaviors occur, or whether there is individual difference or not. However,…

Automate AWS Firewall Manager onboarding using AWS Centralized WAF and VPC Security Group Management solution

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAutomate AWS Firewall Manager onboarding using AWS Centralized WAF and VPC Security Group Management solution Many customers—especially large enterprises—run workloads across multiple AWS accounts and in multiple AWS regions. AWS Firewall Manager service, launched in April 2018, enables customers to centrally configure and manage AWS WAF rules, audit Amazon VPC security group…

New – Amazon RDS on Graviton2 Processors

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedNew – Amazon RDS on Graviton2 Processors I recently wrote a post to announce the availability of M6g, R6g and C6g families of instances on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). These instances offer better cost-performance ratio than their x86 counterparts. They are based on AWS-designed AWS Graviton2 processors, utilizing 64-bit Arm Neoverse…

Unlocking Data from Existing Systems with a Serverless API Facade

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedUnlocking Data from Existing Systems with a Serverless API Facade In today’s modern world, it’s not enough to produce a good product; it’s critical that your products and services are well integrated into the surrounding business ecosystem. Companies lose market share when valuable data about their products or services are locked inside…