Author: Betsy Chernoff

Building and training generative artificial intelligence (AI) models, as well as predicting and providing accurate and insightful outputs requires a significant amount of infrastructure. There’s a lot of data that goes into generating the high-quality synthetic text, images, and other media outputs that large-language models (LLMs), as well as foundational models (FMs), create. To start, […]

This post is contributed by Mike Coleman | Developer Advocate for Lightsail | Twitter: @mikegcoleman We recently announced the release of resource monitoring, alarms, and notifications for Amazon Lightsail. This new feature allows you to set alarm thresholds on your Lightsail instances, databases, and load balancers. When those alarm thresholds are breached, you can be […]

This post is contributed by Laura Thomson | Sr. Product Manager for EC2 Since 2007 we have introduced over 200 different instance types. Some of which include the new sizes of C5d and EC2 High Memory instances that were recently made available. This broad selection means that you get better price and performance for a wide […]

This post is contributed by Mike Coleman | Developer Advocate for Lightsail | Twitter: @mikegcoleman This is the final post in a series about getting a highly available WordPress site up and running on Amazon Lightsail. For reference, the other blog posts are: Implementing a highly available Lightsail database with WordPress Using Amazon S3 with […]

This post is contributed by Mike Coleman | Developer Advocate for Lightsail | Twitter: @mikegcoleman The previous posts in this series (Implementing a highly available Lightsail database with WordPress and Using Amazon S3 with WordPress to securely deliver media files), showed how to build a WordPress site and configure it to use Amazon S3 to serve […]

This post is contributed by Mike Coleman | Developer Advocate for Lightsail | Twitter: @mikegcoleman Introduction This is the second in a series of blog posts on how to build a highly-available WordPress site on Amazon Lightsail. If you’ve not read the first post in the series, Implementing a highly available Lightsail database, you will […]

This post is contributed by Mike Coleman | Developer Advocate for Lightsail | Twitter: @mikegcoleman This post walks you through what to consider when architecting a scalable, redundant WordPress site. It discusses how WordPress stores such elements as user accounts, posts, settings, media, and themes, and how to configure WordPress to work with a standalone […]

This post was written by Robert Zhu, a principal technical evangelist at AWS and a member of the GraphQL Working Group.  When you start a new web-based project, you need lightweight infrastructure that addresses your immediate needs. For my projects, I prioritize simplicity, flexibility, value, and on-demand capacity, and find myself quickly needing the following […]

This post is contributed by Geoff Blake | Sr System Development Engineer In a previous post, Optimizing Network Intensive Workloads on Amazon EC2 A1 Instances, I provided general guidance on tuning network-intensive workloads on A1 instances using Memcached as the example use case. NGINX is another network-intensive application that, like Memcached, is a good fit for […]

This post is contributed by Mike Coleman | Developer Advocate for Lightsail In this post, I discuss how to configure a load balancer to route web traffic for Amazon Lightsail using NGINX. I define load balancers and explain their value. Then, I briefly weigh the pros and cons of self-hosted load balancers against Lightsail’s managed load […]