AWS Architecture Blog
Category: Compute
This Is My Architecture: Mobile Cryptocurrency Mining
In North America, approximately 95% of adults over the age of 25 have a bank account. In the developing world, that number is only about 52%. Cryptocurrencies can provide a platform for millions of unbanked people in the world to achieve financial freedom on a more level financial playing field. Electroneum, a cryptocurrency company located […]
New Whitepaper: Active Directory Domain Services on AWS
The cloud is now at the center of most Enterprise IT strategies. As such, a well-planned move to the cloud can result in immediate business payoff. To achieve such success, it’s important that you adopt Microsoft Active Directory (AD), the foundation of many large enterprise Windows and .NET applications in a secure, scalable, and highly […]
Introducing AWS Solutions: Expert architectures on demand
AWS Solutions Architects are on the front line of helping customers succeed using our technologies. Our team members leverage their deep knowledge of AWS technologies to build custom solutions that solve specific problems for clients. But many customers want to solve common technical problems that don’t require custom solutions, or they want a general solution […]
Samsung Builds a Secure Developer Portal with Fargate and ECR
This post was provided by Samsung. The Samsung developer portal (Samsung Developers) is Samsung’s online portal built to serve technical documents, the Developer blog, and API guides to developers, IT managers, and students interested in building applications with the Samsung products. The Samsung Developers consists of three different portals: SmartThings portal, which serves IoT developers […]
AWS Ops Automator v2 features vertical scaling (Preview)
Updated April 30, 2024: The information in this post is outdated and the solution has been retired. For more solutions using AWS services, see the AWS Solutions Library. The new version of the AWS Ops Automator, a solution that enables you to automatically manage your AWS resources, features vertical scaling for Amazon EC2 instances. With […]
Handling AWS Chargebacks for Enterprise Customers
As AWS product portfolios and feature sets grow, as an enterprise customer, you are likely to migrate your existing workloads and innovate your new products on AWS. To help you keep your cloud charges simple, you can use consolidated billing. This can, however, create complexity for your internal chargebacks, especially if some of your resources […]
Compute Abstractions on AWS: A Visual Story
When I joined AWS last year, I wanted to find a way to explain, in the easiest way possible, all the options it offers to users from a compute perspective. There are many ways to peel this onion, but I want to share a “visual story” that I have created. I define the compute domain […]
Building Real Time AI with AWS Fargate
This post is a contribution from AWS customer, Veritone. It was originally published on the company’s Website. Here at Veritone, we deal with a lot of data. Our product uses the power of cognitive computing to analyze and interpret the contents of structured and unstructured data, particularly audio and video. We use cognitive computing to […]
Serverless Dynamic Web Pages in AWS: Provisioned with CloudFormation
***This blog is authored by Mike Okner of Monsanto, an AWS customer. It originally appeared on the Monsanto company blog. Minor edits were made to the original post.*** Recently, I was looking to create a status page app to monitor a few important internal services. I wanted this app to be as lightweight, reliable, and […]
Reactive Microservices Architecture on AWS
Microservice-application requirements have changed dramatically in recent years. These days, applications operate with petabytes of data, need almost 100% uptime, and end users expect sub-second response times. Typical N-tier applications can’t deliver on these requirements. Reactive Manifesto, published in 2014, describes the essential characteristics of reactive systems including: responsiveness, resiliency, elasticity, and being message driven. […]