Migrating from Vertica to Amazon Redshift

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedMigrating from Vertica to Amazon Redshift Amazon Redshift powers analytical workloads for Fortune 500 companies, startups, and everything in between. With Amazon Redshift, you can query petabytes of structured and semi-structured data across your data warehouse, operational database, and your data lake using standard SQL. When you use Vertica, you have to…

Accelerate infrastructure as code development with open source Former2

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAccelerate infrastructure as code development with open source Former2 In this post, AWS Community Hero, Ian Mckay, highlights the capabilities of Former2, an open source project that enables you to generate infrastructure as code (IaC) templates from existing AWS resources in your account. This post covers how Mckay created Former2, how to…

Using AWS Lambda extensions to send logs to custom destinations

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedUsing AWS Lambda extensions to send logs to custom destinations You can now send logs from AWS Lambda functions directly to a destination of your choice using AWS Lambda Extensions. Lambda Extensions are a new way for monitoring, observability, security, and governance tools to easily integrate with AWS Lambda. For more information,…

Combining encryption and signing with AWS KMS asymmetric keys

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedCombining encryption and signing with AWS KMS asymmetric keys In this post, I discuss how to use AWS Key Management Service (KMS) to combine asymmetric digital signature and asymmetric encryption of the same data. The addition of support for asymmetric keys in AWS KMS has exciting use cases for customers. The ability…

AWS CodePipeline Source Action for AWS CodeCommit Supports git clone

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAWS CodePipeline Source Action for AWS CodeCommit Supports git clone AWS CodePipeline Source Action now supports cloning of AWS CodeCommit repositories. With this improvement, when you define a Source Action, CodePipeline will clone the CodeCommit git repository to fetch the commit history and metadata.