AWS Compute Blog
Building Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for EC2 Mac instances with Packer
This post is written by Joerg Woehrle, AWS Solutions Architect On November 30, 2020 AWS announced the availability of Amazon EC2 Mac instances. EC2 Mac instances are powered by the AWS Nitro System and built on Apple Mac mini computers. This blog post focuses on the specific best practices of building custom AMIs for EC2 […]
Unify your iOS mobile app CI/CD pipeline with Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
This post is written by Benjamin Meyer, Solutions Architect at AWS With Amazon EC2 Mac instances, AWS customers can run macOS workloads on AWS and benefit from the scale, elasticity, reliability, and experience of AWS. With EC2 Mac instances, it’s possible to bootstrap macOS machines in the cloud and use these for building, testing, and […]
Getting Started with AWS Nitro Enclaves on Microsoft Windows
This post is written by Scott Malkie, Specialist Solutions Architect, EC2 AWS Nitro Enclaves, introduced in October 2020, are isolated compute environments. They leverage the power of the AWS Nitro System to provide isolation and attestation for sensitive data processing. Customers use Nitro Enclaves to isolate their data processing workloads, even from users with root […]
Getting Started with Anka on EC2 Mac Instances
This post is written by Scott Malkie, Specialist Solutions Architect, EC2 At re:Invent 2020, we announced Amazon EC2 Mac instances, which enable you to run on-demand macOS workloads in the AWS Cloud for the first time. Apple developers can now benefit from the scalability, elasticity, reliability, and security of the AWS Cloud and the AWS […]
Using System Manager Parameter as an alias for AMI ID
This post was authored by Brian Terry, Senior Partner Solutions Architect, Cloud Management Tools Technical Lead. In this post, I demonstrate how you can use AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store’s, native parameter support for Amazon Machine Image (AMI) IDs while launching Amazon EC2 instances. This removes the need to update all your scripts and templates […]
Testing EC2 Image Builder pipelines using Chef InSpec
This post was written by Anoop Rachamadugu – AWS Cloud Architect. The EC2 Image Builder service helps users to build and maintain server images to use with Amazon EC2 and on-premises using automated build pipelines. As new images are created by the pipelines, you can configure automated tests to validate the image, before distributing it […]
Estimating Amazon EC2 instance needed when migrating ERP from IBM Power Systems
This post courtesy of CK Tan, AWS, Enterprise Migration Architect – APAC Today, there are many enterprise customers who are keen on migrating their mission critical Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications from on-premises to the AWS Cloud. Some of these applications are Oracle E-Business Suite (Oracle EBS) or SAP running on IBM Power Systems. The […]
Optimizing Network Intensive Workloads on Amazon EC2 A1 Instances
This post courtesy of Ali Saidi, AWS, Principal Engineer At re:Invent 2018, AWS announced the Amazon EC2 A1 instance. The A1 instances are powered by our internally developed Arm-based AWS Graviton processors and are up to 45% less expensive than other instance types with the same number of vCPUs and DRAM. These instances are based […]
Getting started with the A1 instance
This post courtesy of Ali Saidi, AWS, Principal Engineer At re:Invent 2018 AWS announced the Amazon EC2 A1 instance. These instances are based on the AWS Nitro System that powers all of our latest generation of instances, and are the first instance types powered by the AWS Graviton Processor. These processors feature 64-bit Arm Neoverse […]
Learn about hourly-replication in Server Migration Service and the ability to migrate large data volumes
This post courtesy of Shane Baldacchino, AWS Solutions Architect AWS Server Migration Service (AWS SMS) is an agentless service that makes it easier and faster for you to migrate thousands of on-premises workloads to AWS. AWS SMS allows you to automate, schedule, and track incremental replications of live server volumes, making it easier for you […]



