Restrict Amazon Redshift Spectrum external table access to Amazon Redshift IAM users and groups using role chaining

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedRestrict Amazon Redshift Spectrum external table access to Amazon Redshift IAM users and groups using role chaining With Amazon Redshift Spectrum, you can query the data in your Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake using a central AWS Glue metastore from your Amazon Redshift cluster. This capability extends your petabyte-scale…

New – Create Amazon RDS DB Instances on AWS Outposts

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedNew – Create Amazon RDS DB Instances on AWS Outposts Late last year I told you about AWS Outposts and invited you to Order Yours Today. As I told you at the time, this is a comprehensive, single-vendor compute and storage offering that is designed to meet the needs of customers who…

Load testing a web application’s serverless backend

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedLoad testing a web application’s serverless backend Many web applications experience high levels of traffic and spiky load patterns. The goal of load testing is to ensure that the architecture and system design works for the amount of traffic expected. It can help developers find bottlenecks and unexpected behavior before a system…