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Sheila Busser

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Building diversified and cost-optimized EC2 server groups in Spinnaker

This blog post is written by Sandeep Palavalasa, Sr. Specialist Containers SA, and Prathibha Datta-Kumar, Software Development Engineer Spinnaker is an open source continuous delivery platform created by Netflix for releasing software changes rapidly and reliably. It enables teams to automate deployments into pipelines that are run whenever a new version is released with proven […]

Figure 1 Landing Zone Accelerator Outposts workload on AWS high level Architecture

Architecting for data residency with AWS Outposts rack and landing zone guardrails

This blog post was written by Abeer Naffa’, Sr. Solutions Architect, Solutions Builder AWS, David Filiatrault, Principal Security Consultant, AWS and Jared Thompson, Hybrid Edge SA Specialist, AWS. In this post, we will explore how organizations can use AWS Control Tower landing zone and AWS Organizations custom guardrails to enable compliance with data residency requirements […]

Enabling Microsoft Defender Credential Guard on Amazon EC2

This blog post is written by Jason Nicholls, Principal Solutions Architect AWS. In this post we show you how to enable Windows Defender Credential Guard (Credential Guard) on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) running Microsoft Windows Server. Credential Guard, when enabled on Amazon EC2 Windows Instances protects sensitive user login information from being extracted […]

Using Porting Advisor for Graviton

This blog post is written by Ryan Doty Solutions Architect, AWS and Vishal Manan Sr. SSA, EC2 Graviton , AWS. AWS customers recognize that Graviton-based EC2 instances deliver price-performance benefits but many are concerned about the effort to port existing applications. Porting code from one architecture to another can require investment in time and effort. AWS […]

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How to create custom health checks for your Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Fleet

This blog post is written by Gaurav Verma, Cloud Infrastructure Architect, Professional Services AWS. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling helps you maintain application availability and lets you automatically add or remove Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances according to the conditions that you define. You can use dynamic and predictive scaling to scale-out and scale-in […]

Figure 1: Architecture diagram showing the components deployed by the AWS SAM template. These include an SQS queue, an Auto Scaling group responsible for polling and processing queue messages, a Lambda function that regularly updates the BPI CloudWatch metric, and a “Target Setter” Lambda function that regularly updates the Auto Scaling group’s target tracking scaling policy.

Scaling an ASG using target tracking with a dynamic SQS target

This blog post is written by Wassim Benhallam, Sr Cloud Application Architect AWS WWCO ProServe, and Rajesh Kesaraju, Sr. Specialist Solution Architect, EC2 Flexible Compute. Scaling an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group based on Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) is a commonly used design pattern in decoupled applications. For example, an EC2 Auto Scaling […]

A diagram showing how an EC2 instance on an Outpost communicates with on-premises network using direct VPC routing mode

How to choose between CoIP and Direct VPC routing modes on AWS Outposts rack

This blog post is written by Sumit Menaria, Senior Hybrid Solutions Architect AWS WWSO Core Services. AWS Outposts Rack is a fully-managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to customer premises. By providing local access to AWS managed infrastructure and services, Outposts rack enables customers to build and run applications on premises […]

Architecture of the automated creation of Root Volumes for Amazon EC2 Instances

Quick Restoration through Replacing the Root Volumes of Amazon EC2 instances

This blog post is written by Katja-Maja Krödel, IoT Specialist Solutions Architect, and Benjamin Meyer, Senior Solutions Architect, Game Tech. Customers use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances to develop, deploy, and test applications. To use those instances most effectively, customers have expressed the need to set back their instance to a previous state […]

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Automating your workload deployments in AWS Local Zones

This blog post is written by Enrico Liguori, SA – Solutions Builder , WWPS Solution Architecture. AWS Local Zones are a type of infrastructure deployment that places compute, storage,and other select AWS services close to large population and industry centers. We now have a total of 32 Local Zones; 15 outside of the US (Bangkok, […]

This figure shows the CloudWatch graph of three metrics – the total CPU Utilization of the Auto Scaling group, the load forecast generated by predictive scaling, and the derived metric using metric math that measures error for over-forecasting

Adopt Recommendations and Monitor Predictive Scaling for Optimal Compute Capacity

This post is written by Ankur Sethi, Sr. Product Manager, EC2, and Kinnar Sen, Sr. Specialist Solution Architect, AWS Compute. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling helps customers optimize their Amazon EC2 capacity by dynamically responding to varying demand. Based on customer feedback, we enhanced the scaling experience with the launch of predictive scaling policies. Predictive scaling […]