AWS customers can now self opt-in to AWS Wavelength Zones

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAWS customers can now self opt-in to AWS Wavelength Zones Starting today, customers can easily enable AWS Wavelength Zones themselves from the new “Settings” section of the EC2 Console or ModifyAvailabilityZoneGroup API . Once enabled, customers can create and manage resources in the Wavelength Zone using the same APIs and Management Console they use…

AWS Shield threat landscape review: 2020 year-in-review

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAWS Shield threat landscape review: 2020 year-in-review AWS Shield is a managed service that protects applications that are running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) against external threats, such as bots and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Shield detects network and web application-layer volumetric events that may indicate a DDoS attack, web content scraping,…

Building private cross-account APIs using Amazon API Gateway and AWS PrivateLink

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedBuilding private cross-account APIs using Amazon API Gateway and AWS PrivateLink This post is written by Brian Zambrano, Enterprise Solutions Architect and Srinivasa Atta, Sr. Technical Account Manager With microservice architectures, multiple teams within an organization often build different parts of an application. Different teams may own functionality for a given business segment. An…

How Amazon Customer Service lowered Amazon Redshift costs and improved performance using RA3 nodes

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedHow Amazon Customer Service lowered Amazon Redshift costs and improved performance using RA3 nodes Amazon Customer Service solves exciting and challenging customer care problems for Amazon.com, the world’s largest online retailer. In 2021, the Amazon Customer Service Technology team upgraded its dense-compute nodes (dc2.8xlarge) to the Amazon Redshift RA3 instance family (ra3.16xlarge). Moving to…

Monitoring your EC2 server fleet with advanced CloudWatch agent capabilities

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedMonitoring your EC2 server fleet with advanced CloudWatch agent capabilities Customers who are running fleets of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances use advanced monitoring techniques to observe their operational performance. Capabilities like aggregated and custom dimensions help customers categorize and customize their metrics across server fleets for fast and efficient decision making.…

Field Notes: How to Integrate Your Non-Cloud-Native COTS Software with AWS for Batch Processing

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedField Notes: How to Integrate Your Non-Cloud-Native COTS Software with AWS for Batch Processing This post was co-written by Ashutosh Pateriya, AWS Partner Solutions Architect, GSI and Verny Quartara, Technology Architect, Infosys Ltd.  Integrating legacy or non cloud-native products and tools inside cloud-native applications is a common requirement for enterprise customers looking to migrate…