Deep dive on the new Amazon EC2 G4ad instances

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedDeep dive on the new Amazon EC2 G4ad instances This post is contributed by Amr Ragab, Senior Solutions Architect, Amazon EC2 The Amazon EC2 G4ad instance type is the latest addition to AWS’ portfolio of accelerated computing instance types. These instances are ideal for graphics-enabled and gaming workloads. They provide the best price performance…

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL M6g and R6g instances now available in N. California, Canada, São Paulo, and London regions

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAmazon RDS for PostgreSQL M6g and R6g instances now available in N. California, Canada, São Paulo, and London regions AWS Graviton2-based database instances for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL are now supported in: US West (N. California), Canada (Central), South America (São Paulo), and Europe (London). Graviton2 instances provide up to 35%…

Heapothesys benchmark suite adds end-to-end timeliness metrics

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedHeapothesys benchmark suite adds end-to-end timeliness metrics Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers seek to assure consistent, reliable, and cost-efficient services. Assuring consistency includes reducing variance in transaction completion times. Assuring reliability requires that the rare transactions that do not complete within the service-specific target deadline do eventually complete in as short a time as…

Export and import Kibana dashboards with Amazon ES

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedExport and import Kibana dashboards with Amazon ES Kibana is a popular open-source visualization tool designed to work with Elasticsearch. Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) provides an installation of Kibana with every Amazon ES domain. Users of Kibana can create visualizations and add them into a dashboard. As organizations invest time and resources into…

Field Notes: How OLX Europe Fights Millions of Bots with AWS

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedField Notes: How OLX Europe Fights Millions of Bots with AWS This post was cowritten with Daniel Loureiro, Lead Security Engineer at OLX Group Global Information Security. At OLX, infrastructure is constantly being scanned and targeted by advanced malicious botnets. These botnets either scrape the content of their websites to monetize it on other…