Digitally Optimize your Factory Issue Resolution with Amazon Virtual Andon

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedDigitally Optimize your Factory Issue Resolution with Amazon Virtual Andon As a manufacturing enterprise, maximizing your operational efficiency and optimizing output are critical in a competitive global market. Global black swan events such as COVID-19 have necessitated the ability to monitor remotely and respond to issues actively, on the factory floor. Amazon Virtual Andon…

AWS announces a new AWS Training Partner program

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAWS announces a new AWS Training Partner program The new AWS Training Partner (ATP) program enables AWS customers to work with a single, trusted Partner who can offer, deliver, and/or resell official AWS-authored training. All AWS Training Partners are selected based on their quality and expertise in providing training. They must continually meet or…

Why You Should Stop Hoarding Metrics

By Dustin Ward

Serverless lets you deploy applications far away in a data center of a cloud provider. This relieves you of the lion’s share of operational burdens. The more you buy into your cloud provider’s ecosystem, the less you have to do yourself: no more OS updates or database bugfix installations.  But you still need to do some operation-related work on…

Perform Chaos Testing on your Amazon Aurora Cluster

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedPerform Chaos Testing on your Amazon Aurora Cluster “Everything fails all the time” Werner Vogels, AWS CTO In 2010, Netflix introduced a tool called “Chaos Monkey”, that was used for introducing faults in a production environment. Chaos Monkey led to the birth of Chaos engineering where teams test their live applications by purposefully injecting faults.…

AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon EBS io2 Block Express Volumes

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAWS Announces General Availability of Amazon EBS io2 Block Express Volumes Today AWS announced general availability of io2 Block Express volumes that deliver up to 4x higher throughput, IOPS, and capacity than io2 volumes, and are designed to deliver sub-millisecond latency and 99.999% durability. io2 Block Express refers to io2 volumes running on the…