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September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. As we wind our way toward 2020, I want to take a moment to first thank you, our readers, for spending time on our blog. We grew our audience quite a bit this year and the credit goes to our […]

In last week’s post, I told you about a new site we introduced at re:Invent at the beginning of this month, the Amazon Builders’ Library, a site that’s chock-full articles by senior technical leaders that help you understand the underpinnings of both Amazon.com and AWS. Below are four more architecture-based articles that describe how Amazon […]

This week I’m telling you about a new site we launched at re:Invent, the Amazon Builders’ Library, a collection of living articles covering topics across architecture, software delivery, and operations. You get to peek under the hood of how Amazon architects, releases, and operates the software underpinning Amazon.com and AWS. Want to know how Amazon.com does what it does? […]

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 […]

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 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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]