AWS Architecture Blog

When trying to figure out how to refactor your applications to leverage AWS Managed Services, you have some decisions to make. You may have decided to move your storage layer to AWS before the computational layer. This may help with using advanced database features, in addition to reducing costs associated with writing and reading data. […]

An AWS security best practice from The 5 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework is to ensure that data is protected both in transit and at rest. One option is to use SSL/TLS to encrypt data in transit, and use cryptographic keys to encrypt data at rest. To meet your organization’s disaster recovery goals, periodic snapshots of […]

Multi-modal transportation is one of the biggest developments in the logistics industry. There has been a successful collaboration across different transportation partners in supply chain freight forwarding for many decades. But there’s still a considerable overhead of paperwork processing for each leg of the trip. Tens of billions of documents are processed in ocean freight […]

AWS Lambda support for container images allows porting containerized web applications to run in a serverless environment. This gives you automatic scaling, built-in high availability, and a pay-for-value billing model so you don’t pay for over-provisioned resources. If you are currently using containers, container image support for AWS Lambda means you can use these benefits […]

In an evolving world that is increasingly connected, data-centric, and fast-paced, the sports industry is no exception. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been helping customers in the sports industry gain real-time insights through analytics. You can re-invent and reimagine the fan experience by tracking sports actions and activities. In this blog post, we will highlight […]

FireEye Helix is a security operations platform that allows organizations to take control of any incident from detection to response. FireEye Helix detects security incidents by correlating logs and configuration settings from sources like VPC Flow Logs, AWS CloudTrail, and Security groups. In this blog post, we will discuss an architecture that allows you to […]

Free trial promotions are a popular marketing tactic, but they can also be a common source of fraud for ecommerce retailers. So, how do you identify fraudulent users? And what are some effective ways to prevent free trial abuse? This blog post outlines common free trial abuse attack vectors and presents prevention techniques. We’ll show […]

Many organizations are modernizing their applications to reduce costs and become more efficient. They must adapt to modern application requirements that provide 24×7 global access. The ability to scale up or down quickly to meet demand and process a large volume of data is critical. This is challenging while maintaining strict performance and availability. For […]

This blog post was co-written by Sudhir Amin, Sr. Solution Architect, AWS, and David Bermingham, Senior Technical Evangelist, SIOS Technology, Inc. To ensure high availability (HA) of Microsoft SQL Server in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), there are two options: Always On Failover Cluster Instance (FCI) and Always On availability groups. With a wide […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has proven to be the largest stress test of our technology infrastructures in generations. A meteoric increase in internet consumption followed, due in large part to working and schooling from home. The chaotic, early months of the pandemic have clearly demonstrated the value of resiliency in production. How can we better prepare […]