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AWS Architecture Monthly Magazine: Manufacturing
For more than 25 years, Amazon has designed and manufactured smart products and distributed billions of products through its globally connected distribution network using cutting edge automation, machine learning and AI, and robotics, with AWS at its core. From product design to smart factory and smart products, AWS helps leading manufacturers transform their manufacturing operations […]
Serverless at AWS re:Invent 2019
Our annual AWS re:Invent conference is just two weeks away! We can’t wait to meet you for an AWSome week in Las Vegas. The Serverless team is now hard at work preparing to deliver over 130 sessions at re:Invent. Come meet us and learn about how to use the newest Serverless innovations to build and architect for […]
FogHorn: Edge-to-Edge Communication and Deep Learning
FogHorn is an intelligent Internet of Things ( IoT) edge solution that delivers data processing and real-time inference where data is created. As “the only ‘real’ edge intelligence solution in the market today,” FogHorn is powered by a hyper-efficient Complex Event Processor (CEP) and delivers comprehensive data enrichment and real-time analytics on high volumes, varieties, […]
Architecting a Low-Cost Web Content Publishing System
Introduction When an IT team first contemplates reducing on-premises hardware they manage to support their workloads they often feel a tension between wanting to use cloud-native services versus taking a lift-and-shift approach. Cloud native services based on serverless designs could reduce costs and enable a solution that is easier to operate, but appears to be […]
Architecture Monthly Magazine: Architecting for Financial Services
This month’s Architecture Monthly magazine delves into the high-stakes world of banking, insurance, and securities. From capital markets and insurance, to global investment banks, payments, and emerging fintech startups, AWS helps customers innovate, modernize, and transform. We’re featuring two field experts in October’s issue. First, we interviewed Ed Pozarycki, a Solutions Architect manager in the […]
Using API Gateway as a Single Entry Point for Web Applications and API Microservices
Introduction The benefits of high availability, scalability, and elasticity that AWS offers has proven to be a boon for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers. AWS has also made it seamless to adopt microservices architectures for modernizing these SaaS applications, as well as providing API-based access for external applications. An API management layer such as Amazon API Gateway […]
Automated Disaster Recovery using CloudEndure
There are any number of events that cause IT outages and impact business continuity. These could include the unexpected infrastructure or application outages caused by flooding, earthquakes, fires, hardware failures, or even malicious attacks. Cloud computing opens a new door to support disaster recovery strategies, with benefits such as elasticity, agility, speed to innovate, and […]
One to Many: Evolving VPC Design
Since its inception, the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) has acted as the embodiment of security and privacy for customers who are looking to run their applications in a controlled, private, secure, and isolated environment. This logically isolated space has evolved, and in its evolution has increased the avenues that customers can take to create […]
New Zealand Internet Connectivity to AWS
Update, August 2022: The Southern Cross Next Cable Network is now online, adding an additional network with a capacity of 72 terabits per second (tbps) to Aotearoa-New Zealand’s international connectivity. Amazon Web Services (AWS) serves more than a million private and public sector organizations all over the world from its extensive and expanding global infrastructure. Like […]
New Issue of Architecture Monthly: Games
This month’s Architecture Monthly magazine is all about games—not Scrabble, not Uno, not Twister, and certainly not hide-and-seek. No, we’re talking the big business of online, multiplayer games. And did you know that approximately 90% of large, public game companies are running on the AWS cloud? Yep, I’m talking Epic (ever heard of Fortnite?), Ubisoft, […]