Amazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore for Shared EBS Snapshots

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAmazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore for Shared EBS Snapshots Snapshots are an integral part of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). Snapshots allow you to create a block-level, point-in-time copy of your volumes for backup, or disaster-recovery purposes. Snapshots are incremental, only data modified since the last snapshots are copied again. You can…

Liberty IT Adopts Serverless Best Practices Using AWS Cloud Development Kit

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedLiberty IT Adopts Serverless Best Practices Using AWS Cloud Development Kit This post was co-written with Matthew Coulter, Lead Technical Architect of Global Risk at Liberty Mutual Liberty IT Solutions, part of Liberty Mutual Group, has been using AWS CloudFormation to deploy serverless applications on AWS for the last four years. These…

Query drug adverse effects and recalls based on natural language using Amazon Comprehend Medical

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedQuery drug adverse effects and recalls based on natural language using Amazon Comprehend Medical In this post, we demonstrate how to use Amazon Comprehend Medical to extract medication names and medical conditions to monitor drug safety and adverse events. Amazon Comprehend Medical is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning (ML)…

Using AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeStar Connections to deploy from Bitbucket

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedUsing AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeStar Connections to deploy from Bitbucket AWS CodeStar Connections is a new feature that allows services like AWS CodePipeline to access third-party code source provider. For example, you can now seamlessly connect your Atlassian Bitbucket Cloud source repository to AWS CodePipeline. This allows you to automate  the…

Modeling business logic flows in serverless applications

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedModeling business logic flows in serverless applications Serverless applications can help you develop more agile applications that can scale automatically. By using serverless services in your architecture, this reduces the amount of boilerplate code. It also helps offload complex tasks to specialized services. As a result, a well-designed serverless application can be…