10 things in engineering we don’t spend enough time on

By Dustin Ward

Engineering time is a precious resource. We often have to balance many tasks and often conflicting priorities. In this article, we’ll look at ten activities for which allocating more time can be beneficial. Let’s learn from the mistakes of others. 1. Backups & Preventing Accidental Deletion Have you ever deleted something prematurely only to figure…

AWS Config RDK: Deploying the Custom Rules using the Terraform

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAWS Config RDK: Deploying the Custom Rules using the Terraform To help customers using the Terraform for multi-cloud infrastructure deployment, we have introduced a new feature in the AWS Config Rule Development Kit (RDK) that allows you to export custom AWS Config rules to Terraform files so that you can deploy the RDK rules…

Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 9.6.22, 10.17, 11.12, and 12.7

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAmazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 9.6.22, 10.17, 11.12, and 12.7 Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database by the open source community, we have updated Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition to support PostgreSQL versions 9.6.22, 10.17, 11.12, and 12.7. These releases contain bug fixes and improvements by the PostgreSQL community. As a reminder, Amazon…

Create CIS hardened Windows images using EC2 Image Builder

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedCreate CIS hardened Windows images using EC2 Image Builder Many organizations today require their systems to be compliant with the CIS (Center for Internet Security) Benchmarks. Enterprises have adopted the guidelines or benchmarks drawn by CIS to maintain secure systems. Creating secure Linux or Windows Server images on the cloud and on-premises can involve…

How to authenticate private container registries using AWS Batch

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedHow to authenticate private container registries using AWS Batch This post was contributed by Clayton Thomas, Solutions Architect, AWS WW Public Sector SLG Govtech. Many AWS Batch users choose to store and consume their AWS Batch job container images on AWS using Amazon Elastic Container Registries (ECR). AWS Batch and Amazon Elastic Container Service…