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Let’s Architect! Using open-source technologies on AWS

With open-source technology, authors make software available to the public, who can view, use, or change it and add new features or support new capabilities. Open-source technology promotes collaboration across different teams, organizations, and people because the process often includes different perspectives and ideas, which typically results a stronger solution. It can be difficult to […]

EDI transaction-processing system architecture on AWS

Building a serverless cloud-native EDI solution with AWS

Electronic data interchange (EDI) is a technology that exchanges information between organizations in a structured digital form based on regulated message formats and standards. EDI has been used in healthcare for decades on the payer side for determination of coverage and benefits verification. There are different standards for exchanging electronic business documents, like American National […]

Solution architecture for multi-language notification system. It includes all the AWS services that are required in this solution. The flow is described as follows.

Build a multi-language notification system with Amazon Translate and Amazon Pinpoint

Organizations with global operations can struggle to notify their customers of any business-related announcements or notifications in different languages. Their customers want to receive notifications in their local language and communication preference. Organizations often rely on complicated third-party services or individuals to manually translate the notifications. This can lead to a loss of revenue due […]

Solution architecture for scanner and probe automation (xxx represents the numbers as defined by the use case)

Dream11: Blocking application attacks using AWS WAF at scale

As the world’s largest fantasy sports platforms with more than 120 million registered users, Dream11 runs multiple contests simultaneously while processing millions of user requests per minute. Their user-centric and data-driven teams make it a priority to ensure that the Dream11 application (app) remains protected against all kinds of threats and vulnerabilities. Introduction to AWS […]

Architecture diagram deploying an AWS SAM template using the Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda services with Amazon CloudWatch metrics

Deploy Quarkus-based applications using AWS Lambda with AWS SAM

­Quarkus offers Java developers the capability of building native images based on GraalVM. A native image is a binary that includes everything: your code, libraries, and a smaller virtual machine (VM). This approach improves the startup time of your AWS Lambda functions, because it is optimized for container-based environments. These use cloud native and serverless […]

Figure 2. Amazon Payment Services’ new architecture using Amazon SQS, Amazon ECS, and Amazon SNS

Migrating a self-managed message broker to Amazon SQS

Amazon Payment Services is a payment service provider that operates across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) geographic regions. Our mission is to provide online businesses with an affordable and trusted payment experience. We provide a secure online payment gateway that is straightforward and safe to use. Amazon Payment Services has regional experts in payment […]

Reduce Cost and Increase Security with Amazon VPC Endpoints

This blog explains the benefits of using Amazon VPC endpoints and highlights a self-paced workshop that will help you learn more about them. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) enables you to launch Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources into a virtual network that you’ve defined. This virtual network resembles a traditional network that you’d operate […]

Log shipping DR solution for SQL Server FCI with Amazon FSx

Extend SQL Server DR using log shipping for SQL Server FCI with Amazon FSx for Windows configuration

For International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, we’re featuring more than a week’s worth of posts that highlight female builders and leaders. We’re showcasing women in the industry who are building, creating, and, above all, inspiring, empowering, and encouraging everyone—especially women and girls—in tech. Companies choosing to rehost their on-premises SQL Server workloads to […]

Figure 2. Db2 log shipping using S3 Cross-Region Replication

Disaster recovery approaches for Db2 databases on AWS

As you migrate your critical enterprise workloads from an IBM Db2 on-premises database to the AWS Cloud, it’s critical to have a reliable and effective disaster recovery (DR) strategy. This helps the database applications operate with little or no disruption from unexpected events like a natural disaster. Recovery point objective (RPO), recovery time objective (RTO), […]

Figure 1. Architecture diagram of QsrSoft TV solution

QsrSoft launches Digital Huddle Board in 3 months with AWS serverless and Fire devices

QsrSoft is a software as a service (SaaS) company that develops solutions for clients in the restaurant, hospitality, and retail industries to help them achieve operational excellence. QsrSoft has provided these services for more than two decades and now services over 14,000 locations. QsrSoft started using AWS in 2015 and fully migrated all their workloads […]