Why AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedWhy AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help One of the most exciting things about the Rust programming language is that it makes infrastructure incredibly boring. That’s not a bad thing, in this case. No one wants their electrical wiring to be exciting; most of us prefer the safety that…

Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights adds Automatic Application Discovery

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAmazon CloudWatch Application Insights adds Automatic Application Discovery Setting up monitoring for your enterprise applications got even easier with Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights new ability to automatically detect applications and setup monitoring based on the detected applications. CloudWatch Application Insights is a capability that helps customers easily setup monitoring and enhanced observability…

Field Notes: Setting Up Disaster Recovery in a Different Seismic Zone Using AWS Outposts

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedField Notes: Setting Up Disaster Recovery in a Different Seismic Zone Using AWS Outposts Recovering your mission-critical workloads from outages is essential for business continuity and providing services to customers with little or no interruption. That’s why many customers replicate their mission-critical workloads in multiple places using a Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy…

AWS Well-Architected Framework in Serverless Part III: Reliability Pillar

By Dustin Ward

This is part three of the “Well-Architected in Serverless” series where we decipher the AWS Well-Architected Framework (WAF) pillars and translate them into real-life actions. In this article, we will focus on the AWS WAF Reliability (REL) pillar. The Reliability Pillar Unlike the Operational Excellence (OPS) and Security (SEC) pillars, the REL pillar is tradable.…

New – Code Signing, a Trust and Integrity Control for AWS Lambda

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedNew – Code Signing, a Trust and Integrity Control for AWS Lambda Code signing is an industry standard technique used to confirm that the code is unaltered and from a trusted publisher. Code running inside AWS Lambda functions is executed on highly hardened systems and runs in a secure manner. However, function…

AWS Database Migration Service now supports Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless as a target

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAWS Database Migration Service now supports Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless as a target AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has expanded functionality by adding support for Amazon Aurora Serverless (PostgreSQL-compatible edition) as a target. Amazon Aurora Serverless (PostgreSQL-compatible edition) is an on-demand, auto-scaling configuration where the database will automatically start up, shut down,…