CloudWatch Application Insights adds EBS volume and API Gateway metrics

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedCloudWatch Application Insights adds EBS volume and API Gateway metrics Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights, adds additional storage volume metrics to provide further insights to your storage performance and health along with the new ability to monitor your API Gateway functions. CloudWatch Application Insights is a capability that helps enterprise customers easily setup…

Advanced Connection Pooling with the Heimdall Proxy

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAdvanced Connection Pooling with the Heimdall Proxy By Erik Brandsberg, CTO at Heimdall DataBy Roneel Kumar, Database Solutions Architect at AWS As databases are often a key component of internet infrastructure, IT departments may be challenged by poor connection management from the application. There are three areas where connection management can be an…

How to Provision and Deploy SSL/TLS Certificates Using ACM

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedHow to Provision and Deploy SSL/TLS Certificates Using ACM Looking for a detailed, step-by-step guide on how to provision and deploy SSL/TLS certificates using ACM? You’ve reached the destination! AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) is a service that enables you to establish your website’s identity and secure network communications. This is because ACM…

Optimizing Amazon EMR for resilience and cost with capacity-optimized Spot Instances

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedOptimizing Amazon EMR for resilience and cost with capacity-optimized Spot Instances Amazon EMR now supports the capacity-optimized allocation strategy for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Spot Instances for launching Spot Instances from the most available Spot Instance capacity pools by analyzing capacity metrics in real time. You can now specify up…