Category: Technical How-to

By automating performance testing and including chaos testing, organizations can identify failure scenarios in systems before they develop and cause downtime. Learn how Distributed Load Testing on AWS (DLT) automates performance testing at scale, and how AWS Fault Injection Simulator (AWS FIS) performs controlled chaos engineering experiments on AWS resources. By combining the power of AWS FIS and DLT, organizations can perform comprehensive resilience testing and continuously validate their systems.

With the rise of large language models, natural language processing, and generative AI models, embeddings are becoming a critical piece of data in more machine learning use cases. In this post, explore different ways embeddings are used in machine learning and where problems can show up that impact your ML models, and how you can use WhyLabs to identify those problems and create monitors to avoid them showing up again in the future.

Developers can rely on AWS CloudFormation to update or add new resources to an application, as CloudFormation provides two methods for updating the stack: direct update or change set. Learn how to update the value and add new resources to your running Amazon RDS deployment, and explore architecture diagrams to help you see how the system behaves when you apply the changes via CloudFormation template.

When building out a CI/CD pipeline, there are ways to proactively harden your pipelines when they need to access environments in AWS accounts. Given that your pipeline will have create and destroy access to critical components of your AWS-based environments, it’s important to evaluate how GitLab Runner authenticates and authorizes for access to your AWS accounts. Learn how the new OpenID Connect (OIDC) for GitLab CI/CD jobs can help you access AWS services using GitLab.

Kasten K10 by Veeam makes backing up and restoring data easy in the event of a security breach or unintended or unauthorized data manipulation. K10’s cloud-native philosophy inherently makes it easy to integrate into security monitoring systems without much effort. Learn about the Kubernetes Audit and how Kasten K10 natively integrates with it, and explore how to configure Amazon GuardDuty and find K10 events in Amazon CloudWatch logs which GuardDuty pulls from.

Customers can use Grafana Cloud to connect over 60 of the most popular AWS services. Interacting with those services in Grafana Cloud is easier than ever, providing one portal to set up and manage an entire AWS observability strategy. This post takes a closer look at the changes that will make it easier to manage your AWS environment. Grafana Labs supports users’ infrastructure and applications wherever they are, regardless of data type or source.

The term “API economy” refers to businesses delivering digital services to end users, other company services, or partners. This post discusses the necessary aspects to achieve an observability model in the API economy, including a practice example with an architecture design and related technologies. Based on Pragma’s extensive experience, explore the mainstays of observability and the importance of having well-defined observability architecture to have a thriving API economy model at scale.

A prominent blockchain technology provider sought TrackIt‘s assistance in deploying a scalable Chainlink environment on AWS. Learn how TrackIt leveraged a comprehensive suite of AWS services to implement a customized Chainlink workflow, and explore the steps required to deploy a secure, reliable, and scalable Chainlink environment on AWS. Chainlink is a decentralized blockchain oracle network built on Ethereum designed to facilitate the transfer of tamper-proof data from off-chain sources to on-chain smart contracts.

Many organizations have standardized or plan to standardize their unified data security governance on AWS Lake Formation. Some of these organizations are also leveraging Databricks and would like to create and manage data access policies for Databricks using AWS Lake Formation as well. Learn how Privacera’s integrated solution extends AWS Lake Formation source support to Databricks and provides data access policy authorship and maintenance from one safe and convenient location.

Protecting AWS account root users with multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a crucial security control, and now you can use CyberArk’s Privileged Access Manager (PAM) to securely manage the AWS account root and authenticate its use with MFA. We’ll review the current MFA features for AWS account root user, provide a step-by-step walkthrough of how to install and configure CyberArk PAM to manage root accounts with MFA, and show how to sign into the AWS root account with CyberArk PAM.