Every couple of days you read about the “next big thing in [enter technology name here]” and it’s hard to tell if there’s anything behind those claims. Yet, I often suffer from a terrible affliction called FOMO — fear of missing out — which makes me spend hours upon hours testing the technology only to…
Both Amazon ECS and AWS Lambda were launched at the same time. They are both services and they are both offered by Amazon. A more generic term for them would be “cloud services”. So what is the difference between the two? Both services serve the same purpose: to offer an environment in which you can…
AWS FeedHotpatch for Apache Log4j CVE-2021-44228 has made for a busy weekend trying to patch or mitigate the vulnerability in a pervasively used open source logging platform, Apache Log4j. We recommend that those running affected applications upgrade Log4j to version 2.15 to address this vulnerability. However, this isn’t always quick, so folks from the Coretto…
AWS FeedUsing an Amazon MQ network of broker topologies for distributed microservices This post is written by Suranjan Choudhury Senior Manager SA and Anil Sharma, Apps Modernization SA. This blog looks at ActiveMQ topologies that customers can evaluate when planning hybrid deployment architectures spanning AWS Regions and customer data centers, using a network of brokers.…
AWS FeedCodify your best practices using service control policies: Part 2 I introduced the fundamental concepts of service control policies (SCPs) in the previous post. We discussed what SCPs are, why you should create SCPs, the two approaches you can use to implement SCPs, and how to iterate and improve SCPs as your workload and…
AWS FeedMigrating a Database Workflow to Modernized AWS Workflow Services The relational database is a critical resource in application architecture. Enterprise organizations often use relational database management systems (RDBMS) to provide embedded workflow state management. But this can present problems, such as inefficient use of data storage and compute resources, performance issues, and decreased agility.…