Best practices for handling EC2 Spot Instance interruptions

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedBest practices for handling EC2 Spot Instance interruptions This post is contributed by Scott Horsfield – Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect, EC2 Spot Amazon EC2 Spot Instances are spare compute capacity in the AWS Cloud available to you at steep discounts compared to On-Demand Instance prices. The only difference between an On-Demand Instance…

Leveraging AWS Global Backbone for Data Center Migration and Global Expansion

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedLeveraging AWS Global Backbone for Data Center Migration and Global Expansion Many companies run their applications in data centers, server rooms or in space rented from colocation providers in multiple countries. Those companies usually have a mixture of a small number of central large data centers where their core systems are hosted…

How Euler Hermes detects typo squatting with Amazon SageMaker

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedHow Euler Hermes detects typo squatting with Amazon SageMaker This is a guest post from Euler Hermes. In their own words, “For over 100 years, Euler Hermes, the world leader in credit insurance, has accompanied its clients to provide simpler and safer digital products, thus becoming a key catalyzer in the world’s…

Get started with digital content creation on AWS

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedGet started with digital content creation on AWS A tutorial series for cloud-based digital content creation Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers digital content creators, including visual effects and animation studios, a tutorial series to take production entirely to the cloud. This teaching series is designed for small teams looking for ways to…

Managing backend requests and frontend notifications in serverless web apps

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedManaging backend requests and frontend notifications in serverless web apps Web and mobile applications usually interact with a backend service, often via an API. Many front-end applications pass requests for processing, wait for a result, and then display this to the user. This synchronous approach is only one way to handle messages,…