Category: Compute

Amazon EC2 Mac instances provide Apple hardware to develop for iOS and macOS at scale. Dependencies for building apps require privileged access, normally needing manual user approval. By enrolling EC2 Macs into Mobile Device Management (MDM) with Jamf Pro, administrators can automate remote configuration and software deployment without per-instance interaction. After launching an instance and installing required profiles with Jamf, users should create an AMI to retain the instance state.

Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) allow quick deployment of EC2 instances, but managing multiple customized AMIs is complex. Stratus10’s Image Management Solution automates and streamlines AMI building, testing, and deployment using EC2 Image Builder. It provides consistency, integrates with current processes, reduces costs, and improves security. By eliminating manual processes, engineering teams can focus on innovation while hardened images ensure best practices.

Leveraging AWS Lambda response streaming functionality enables progressive data delivery from large datasets, enhancing web application performance. This post compares a traditional API implementation to a Lambda streaming API, demonstrating reduced time-to-first-byte latency and quicker, more dynamic client-side rendering. By incrementally sending data, response streaming eliminates lag from waiting on entire dataset transfers, vastly improving user experience for data-intensive applications.

Noventiq developed uDMS, a smart document management system hosted on AWS serverless architecture that removes the need to manage servers while ensuring scalability, cost-efficiency, and global accessibility. uDMS offers easy document tracking, metadata templating, workflow notifications, version control, and integrates well with other systems. It demonstrates how a serverless architecture can enable rapid deployment and modernization of legacy document management systems.

MemVerge Memory Machine Cloud (MMCloud) enables running bioinformatics pipelines cost-effectively on Amazon EC2 Spot instances. It seamlessly integrates with Nextflow pipelines through the nf-float plugin and simplifies migrating on-premises pipelines to the AWS cloud. Learn how Columbia University and MDI Biological Laboratory leveraged MMCloud to run intensive genomic analyses at 50-80% lower cost by utilizing spot instances.

Social media is an integral part of everyday life as billions use it to connect, share, and find entertainment. Hootsuite provides businesses with a secure, scalable platform to manage social media across channels, analyze performance, and deliver customer care. By leveraging AWS services, Hootsuite offers robust tools to help brands economically manage their digital footprint, better understand their audience, and optimize their social media investments.

Uptycs and AWS Systems Manager integration provides automated, consistent deployment of Uptycs sensors across Amazon EC2 instances. This enhances security by ensuring full coverage, reducing misconfigurations, and streamlining management. Uptycs is an AWS Specialization Partner offering cloud-native application protection and endpoint detection and response. The integration leverages AWS Systems Manager’s capabilities for centralized instance management.

Organizations are rapidly adopting containerized environments using AWS Fargate for developer efficiency. Sysdig uses advanced instrumentation to provide real-time visibility into AWS Fargate containers to detect threats. With policies and automatic response, Sysdig Secure enables AWS Fargate workload protection without requiring code changes. As an AWS Specialization Partner, Sysdig helps secure cloud-native applications on AWS.

AWS IAM Roles Anywhere allow you to use identity and access management roles to obtain temporary credentials for workloads outside AWS. This minimizes exposed credentials, enables centralized access controls with AWS IAM, and provides granular permissions to virtual machines. Explore common use cases for using IAM Roles Anywhere for your workloads running on VMware Cloud on AWS and the relevant setup process on a virtual machine in VMware Cloud on AWS.

CyberCX built an AWS serverless data lake and data masking solution to enable using production data securely in non-production environments. The modular, AWS-native solution combines AWS services to mask sensitive data in near real-time while retaining data utility. This allows thorough testing and confidence before deployment to production, improving data security and accelerating time to market.