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Driving Big Data Innovation on AWS – ISV Highlights, April 2017

Introduction by Terry Wise, Global Vice President, Channels & Alliances at AWS What can your data do for you? More importantly, how can insights derived from your data help you drive additional value for end customers? Our APN partners offer services and solutions that complement what AWS has to offer. As an example, many customers […]

How to Build Sparse EBS Volumes for Fun and Easy Snapshotting

By Ian Scofield, Partner Solutions Architects – AWS By Mike Ruiz, Partner Solutions Architect – AWS If you are familiar with Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) and the EBS volume snapshotting process, you may know that we recommend initializing – that is, reading every block – on volumes that have been created from snapshots […]

AWS Migration

Amazon VPC for On-Premises Network Engineers – Part 2

Editor’s note: This is the second of a popular two-part series by Nick Matthews. Read Part 1 >> By Nick Matthews, Partner Solutions Architect, CCIE #23560 In the previous post on Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), we covered the basic anatomy of a VPC and the different ways to connect a VPC to the outside world. […]

AWS Migration

Amazon VPC for On-Premises Network Engineers – Part 1

Editor’s note: This is the first of a popular two-part series by Nick Matthews. Read Part 2 >> By Nick Matthews, Partner Solutions Architect, CCIE #23560 I relate better to networking when people use words and phrases I know, such as “router on a stick,” “MPLS WAN,” and “VRF,” and then show me a packet […]

AWS Operations

Terraform: Beyond the Basics with AWS

Editor’s note: This post was updated in March 2018. By Josh Campbell and Brandon Chavis, Partner Solutions Architects at AWS Terraform by HashiCorp, an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Technology Partner and member of the AWS DevOps Competency, is an “infrastructure as code” tool similar to AWS CloudFormation that allows you to create, update, and version your […]

AWS DevOps

Getting Started with Ansible and Dynamic Amazon EC2 Inventory Management

Editor’s note: For the latest information on Amazon EC2, visit the Amazon EC2 website or the AWS Blog category for Amazon EC2. By Brandon Chavis, Partner Solutions Architect at AWS Today, the options for configuration and orchestration management seem nearly endless, making it daunting to find a tool that works well for you and your organization. […]