Monitoring your EC2 server fleet with advanced CloudWatch agent capabilities

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedMonitoring your EC2 server fleet with advanced CloudWatch agent capabilities Customers who are running fleets of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances use advanced monitoring techniques to observe their operational performance. Capabilities like aggregated and custom dimensions help customers categorize and customize their metrics across server fleets for fast and efficient decision making.…

Field Notes: How to Integrate Your Non-Cloud-Native COTS Software with AWS for Batch Processing

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedField Notes: How to Integrate Your Non-Cloud-Native COTS Software with AWS for Batch Processing This post was co-written by Ashutosh Pateriya, AWS Partner Solutions Architect, GSI and Verny Quartara, Technology Architect, Infosys Ltd.  Integrating legacy or non cloud-native products and tools inside cloud-native applications is a common requirement for enterprise customers looking to migrate…

How to Integrate VMware Cloud on AWS Datastores with AWS Analytics Services

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedHow to Integrate VMware Cloud on AWS Datastores with AWS Analytics Services By Balakrishnan Nair, Specialist Solutions Architect at AWSBy Kiran Reid, Partner Solutions Architect at AWS Customers who run VMware on-premises are incorporating VMware Cloud on AWS into their hybrid cloud strategy due to the immense benefits of using the AWS Global Infrastructure.…

Speed up your Amazon Athena queries using partition projection

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedSpeed up your Amazon Athena queries using partition projection This post is co-written with Steven Wasserman of Vertex, Inc. Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage,…

How to verify AWS KMS signatures in decoupled architectures at scale

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedHow to verify AWS KMS signatures in decoupled architectures at scale AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) makes it easy to create and manage cryptographic keys in your applications. The service supports both symmetric and asymmetric customer master keys (CMKs). The asymmetric CMKs offer digital signature capability, which data consumers can use to verify…