Get Your Business Off The Ground with the AWS Serverless-First Function

By Dustin Ward

Guest post by Ragi Mahil, Principal PMM for Serverless, AWS Have you been looking at ways to refactor your application with the least amount of time and development effort? Or are you thinking about modernizing your technology to scale faster after having just secured your round of VC Funding? A serverless-first approach could be your…

Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports User Authentication with external Microsoft Active Directory

By Dustin Ward

Earlier this year, we launched support for Aurora PostgreSQL user authentication with Kerberos and Microsoft Active Directory. In the original release, this support was based on AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory. We have now added support for user authentication using external Kerberos and Microsoft Active Directories, including those running on premises.

Getting Started with Ultra-Low Latency Using AWS Elemental Live – Part 2

By Dustin Ward

The AWS Elemental Live encoder version 2.17.3 now supports chunk delivery to AWS Elemental MediaStore enabling a stable user experience of 3-4 seconds glass-to-glass latency using standard HLS/DASH packaged content and delivered through traditional CDNs. This blog post, the final of a two-part series, provides a step-by-step guide to building an ultra-low latency (ULL) workflow…

Introduction to Amazon EFS Infrequent Access

By Dustin Ward

This short demo shows you how to easily get started with the Amazon Elastic File System Infrequent Access (EFS IA) storage class and optimizing storage cost with a EFS Lifecycle Management policy. Amazon EFS Infrequent Access provides price and performance for files not accessed everyday and automatically moves your files to the lower cost EFS…