AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry now available for public preview

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAWS Distro for OpenTelemetry now available for public preview Today’s distributed applications and systems are complex and constantly changing, making system observability challenging. For example, customers use multiple AWS SDKs and agents from different monitoring services to collect and analyze different performance data for their applications. Yesterday we announced the AWS Distro…

Building event-driven architectures with Amazon SNS FIFO

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedBuilding event-driven architectures with Amazon SNS FIFO This post is courtesy of Christian Mueller, Principal Solutions Architect. Developers increasingly adopt event-driven architectures to decouple their distributed applications. Often, these events must be propagated in a strictly ordered manner to all subscribed applications. Using Amazon SNS FIFO topics and Amazon SQS FIFO queues,…

Architecting a Data Lake for Higher Education Student Analytics

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedArchitecting a Data Lake for Higher Education Student Analytics One of the keys to identifying timely and impactful actions is having enough raw material to work with. However, this up-to-date information typically lives in the databases that sit behind several different applications. One of the first steps to finding data-driven insights is…

Bring your own CLI to Session Manager with configurable shell profiles

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedBring your own CLI to Session Manager with configurable shell profiles In keeping with the principle that identity is the new perimeter, AWS Systems Manager Session Manager provides a mechanism for authenticated and authorized AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals to gain data-plane shell access to Amazon EC2 instances, without setting…