Reduce Cost and Increase Security with Amazon VPC Endpoints

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedReduce Cost and Increase Security with Amazon VPC Endpoints Introduction This blog explains the benefits of using Amazon VPC endpoints and highlights a self-paced workshop that will help you to learn more about them. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) enables you to launch AWS resources into a virtual network that you’ve…

Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances based on AWS Inferentia now available in US East (Ohio), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Sydney, Tokyo) Regions

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAmazon EC2 Inf1 instances based on AWS Inferentia now available in US East (Ohio), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Sydney, Tokyo) Regions AWS has expanded the availability of Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances in US East (Ohio), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Sydney, Tokyo). Inf1 instances are powered by AWS Inferentia…

Improving AWS Cloud Applications with New AWS Well-Architected Best Practices

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedImproving AWS Cloud Applications with New AWS Well-Architected Best Practices By Patrick Weightman, AWS Well-Architected Partner Marketing Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently launched a new version of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, and updates to the AWS Well-Architected Tool. The new changes were made in response to industry trends, as well as feedback…

Scheduling AWS Lambda Provisioned Concurrency for recurring peak usage

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedScheduling AWS Lambda Provisioned Concurrency for recurring peak usage This post is contributed by Jerome Van Der Linden, AWS Solutions Architect Concurrency of an AWS Lambda function is the number of requests it can handle at any given time. This metric is the average number of requests per second multiplied by the…

Quickly build STIG-compliant Amazon Machine Images using Amazon EC2 Image Builder

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedQuickly build STIG-compliant Amazon Machine Images using Amazon EC2 Image Builder In this post, we discuss how to implement the operating system security requirements defined by the Defence Information Systems Agency (DISA) Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs). As an Amazon Web Services (AWS) customer, you can use Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) published…