Heapothesys benchmark suite adds end-to-end timeliness metrics

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedHeapothesys benchmark suite adds end-to-end timeliness metrics Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers seek to assure consistent, reliable, and cost-efficient services. Assuring consistency includes reducing variance in transaction completion times. Assuring reliability requires that the rare transactions that do not complete within the service-specific target deadline do eventually complete in as short a time as…

Export and import Kibana dashboards with Amazon ES

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedExport and import Kibana dashboards with Amazon ES Kibana is a popular open-source visualization tool designed to work with Elasticsearch. Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) provides an installation of Kibana with every Amazon ES domain. Users of Kibana can create visualizations and add them into a dashboard. As organizations invest time and resources into…

Field Notes: How OLX Europe Fights Millions of Bots with AWS

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedField Notes: How OLX Europe Fights Millions of Bots with AWS This post was cowritten with Daniel Loureiro, Lead Security Engineer at OLX Group Global Information Security. At OLX, infrastructure is constantly being scanned and targeted by advanced malicious botnets. These botnets either scrape the content of their websites to monetize it on other…

The case for and against Amazon Cognito

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedThe case for and against Amazon Cognito In light of recent news of Okta’s pending acquisition of Auth0 there’s been renewed discussion about where Amazon Cognito fits into the picture. It’s a question my clients often ask me, so here are my two cents. The case for Cognito Integration with other AWS services Cognito’s tight integration with…