AWS Security Profiles: Colm MacCárthaigh, Senior Principal Engineer

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAWS Security Profiles: Colm MacCárthaigh, Senior Principal Engineer In the weeks leading up to re:Invent, we’ll share conversations we’ve had with people at AWS who will be presenting, and get a sneak peek at their work. How long have you been at AWS and what do you do in your current role?…

Field Notes: Setting Up Disaster Recovery in a Different Seismic Zone Using AWS Outposts

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedField Notes: Setting Up Disaster Recovery in a Different Seismic Zone Using AWS Outposts Recovering your mission-critical workloads from outages is essential for business continuity and providing services to customers with little or no interruption. That’s why many customers replicate their mission-critical workloads in multiple places using a Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy…

AWS Well-Architected Framework in Serverless Part III: Reliability Pillar

By Dustin Ward

This is part three of the “Well-Architected in Serverless” series where we decipher the AWS Well-Architected Framework (WAF) pillars and translate them into real-life actions. In this article, we will focus on the AWS WAF Reliability (REL) pillar. The Reliability Pillar Unlike the Operational Excellence (OPS) and Security (SEC) pillars, the REL pillar is tradable.…

New – Code Signing, a Trust and Integrity Control for AWS Lambda

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedNew – Code Signing, a Trust and Integrity Control for AWS Lambda Code signing is an industry standard technique used to confirm that the code is unaltered and from a trusted publisher. Code running inside AWS Lambda functions is executed on highly hardened systems and runs in a secure manner. However, function…

AWS Database Migration Service now supports Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless as a target

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAWS Database Migration Service now supports Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless as a target AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has expanded functionality by adding support for Amazon Aurora Serverless (PostgreSQL-compatible edition) as a target. Amazon Aurora Serverless (PostgreSQL-compatible edition) is an on-demand, auto-scaling configuration where the database will automatically start up, shut down,…