How to use trust policies with IAM roles

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedHow to use trust policies with IAM roles AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles are a significant component in the way customers operate in Amazon Web Service (AWS). In this post, I’ll dive into the details on how Cloud security architects and account administrators can protect IAM roles from misuse by…

Announcing a second Local Zone in Los Angeles

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAnnouncing a second Local Zone in Los Angeles In December 2019, Jeff Barr published this post announcing the launch of a new Local Zone in Los Angeles, California. A Local Zone extends existing AWS regions closer to end-users, providing single-digit millisecond latency to a subset of AWS services in the zone. Local…

Top 10 performance tuning techniques for Amazon Redshift

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedTop 10 performance tuning techniques for Amazon Redshift Customers use Amazon Redshift for everything from accelerating existing database environments, to ingesting weblogs for big data analytics. Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale, massively parallel data warehouse that offers simple operations and high performance. Amazon Redshift provides an open standard JDBC/ODBC driver…