Azure Stack updates and how it enables intelligence at the edge

By Dustin Ward

Today, more than ever before, it is essential that our colleagues, customers, and partners be able to react quickly and confidently to rapidly changing circumstances. The ability to ingest, analyze, and act on incoming information requires that an organization have a robust, scalable technology infrastructure. Such an infrastructure is not limited to one place or…

Change feed with full database operations for Azure Cosmos DB

By Dustin Ward

Preview support for Azure Cosmos DB change feed with full database operations history will be available in the coming months. Users will be able to filter the change feed by operation type (write, update, or delete) and there will also be an option to include the previous version of documents in the change feed.

Developing Migration and Rapid Application Development Strategies for SAP S/4HANA on AWS

By Dustin Ward

By Navjot Sharma, Senior Manager at Deloitte Consulting LLPBy Manas Srivastava, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect at AWS Migrating from an on-premises SAP environment to SAP S/4HANA on Amazon Web Services (AWS) can appear intimidating, particularly for organizations that have little experience with cloud infrastructure. There’s good reason for caution: shifting mission-critical workloads without proper planning…

ECS blue/green deployments through CodeDeploy

By Dustin Ward

You can now use CloudFormation to perform ECS blue/green deployments through CodeDeploy. Blue/green deployments are a safe deployment strategy provided by AWS CodeDeploy for minimizing interruptions caused by changing application versions.

Monitoring AWS Elemental MediaStore with Amazon CloudWatch metrics

By Dustin Ward

Many customers have built live streaming workflows using AWS Elemental MediaStore as a high performant live video origin in the cloud. For example, FOX recently used MediaStore as a low latency origin for its AWS-enabled production workflow for Super Bowl LIV. In a previous blog post, I explained how to use MediaStore access logs to…