AWS Architecture Blog
Category: Technical How-to
Field Notes: Deliver Messages Using an IoT Rule Action to Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka
With IoT devices scaling up rapidly, real-time data integration and data processing has become a major challenge. This is why customers often choose Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) for message ingestion, and Apache Kafka to build a real-time streaming data pipeline. AWS IoT Core now supports a new IoT rule action to deliver messages from […]
Field Notes: Building a Scalable Real-Time Newsfeed Watchlist Using Amazon Comprehend
One of the challenges businesses have is to constantly monitor information via media outlets and be alerted when a key interest is picked up, such as individual, product, or company information. One way to do this is to scan media and news feeds against a company watchlist. The list may contain personal names, organizations or […]
Field Notes: Build Dynamic IVR Menus with Amazon Connect and AWS Lambda
This post was co-written by Marius Cealera, Senior Partner Solutions Architect at AWS, and Zdenko Estok, Cloud Architect and DevOps Engineer at Accenture. Modern interactive voice response (IVR) systems help customers find answers to their questions through a series of menus, usually relying on the customer to filter and select the right options. Adding more […]
Field Notes: Launch a Fully Configured AWS Deep Learning Desktop with NICE DCV
You want to start quickly when doing deep learning using GPU-activated Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances in the AWS Cloud. Although AWS provides end-to-end machine learning (ML) in Amazon SageMaker, working at the deep learning frameworks level, the quickest way to start is with AWS Deep Learning AMIs (DLAMIs), which provide preconfigured Conda environments for […]
Field Notes: How Sportradar Accelerated Data Recovery Using AWS Services
This post was co-written by Mithil Prasad, AWS Senior Customer Solutions Manager, Patrick Gryczka, AWS Solutions Architect, Ben Burdsall, CTO at Sportradar and Justin Shreve, Director of Engineering at Sportradar. Ransomware is a type of malware which encrypts data, effectively locking those affected by it out of their own data and requesting a payment to […]
Field Notes: How to Set Up Your Cross-Account and Cross-Region Database for Amazon Aurora
This post was co-written by Ashutosh Pateriya, Solution Architect at AWS and Nirmal Tomar, Principal Consultant at Infosys Technologies Ltd. Various organizations have stringent regulatory compliance obligations or business requirements that require an effective cross-account and cross-region database setup. We recommend to establish a Disaster Recovery (DR) environment in different AWS accounts and Regions for […]
Field Notes: Orchestrating and Monitoring Complex, Long-running Workflows Using AWS Step Functions
Situation: S&P Global Market Intelligence’s WSO solution offers financial reports to hundreds of clients worldwide. When S&P Global Market Intelligence completed the migration of WSO’s SaaS software to AWS, it unlocked the power and agility to deliver new product features monthly, as opposed to a multi-year release cycle. This migration also presented a great opportunity […]
Field Notes: Automating Data Ingestion and Labeling for Autonomous Vehicle Development
This post was co-written by Amr Ragab, AWS Sr. Solutions Architect, EC2 Engineering and Anant Nawalgaria, former AWS Professional Services EMEA. One of the most common needs we have heard from customers in Autonomous Vehicle (AV) development, is to launch a hybrid deployment environment at scale. As vehicle fleets are deployed across the globe, they […]
Field Notes: Accelerating Data Science with RStudio and Shiny Server on AWS Fargate
This post was updated November 18, 2021. Data scientists continuously look for ways to accelerate time to value for analytics projects. RStudio Server is a popular Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for R, which is used to render analytics visualizations for faster decision making. These visualizations are traditionally hosted on legacy unix servers along with Shiny […]
Field Notes: SQL Server Deployment Options on AWS Using Amazon EC2
Many enterprise applications run Microsoft SQL Server as their backend relational database. There are various options for customers to benefit from deploying their SQL Server on AWS. This blog will help you choose the right architecture for your SQL Server Deployment with high availability options, using Amazon EC2 for mission-critical applications. SQL Server on Amazon […]









