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NEW: Simplifying the use of third-party block storage with AWS Outposts

This post is written by Kate Sposato, Senior Solutions Architect, EC2 Edge Compute AWS is excited to announce deeper collaboration with industry-leading storage solutions to streamline the use of third-party storage with AWS Outposts. You can now attach and use external block data volumes from NetApp® on-premises enterprise storage arrays and Pure Storage® FlashArray™ directly […]

Overall architecture diagram showing custom domains for private endpoints.

Implementing custom domain names for private endpoints with Amazon API Gateway

This post is written by Heeki Park, Principal Solutions Architect Amazon API Gateway is introducing custom domain name support for private REST API endpoints. Customers choose private REST API endpoints when they want endpoints that are only callable from within their Amazon VPC. Custom domain names are simpler and more intuitive URLs that you can […]

Using zonal shift with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

This post is written by Michael Haken, Senior Principal Solutions Architect, AWS Today, we’re announcing support for zonal shift in Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling. Zonal shift allows you to rapidly recover from application impairments in a single Availability Zone (AZ) impacting your Auto Scaling Group (ASG) resources. In this post, we describe how performing an […]

Figure 1. C7a.large and C6a.large performance results over ten tests

Reduce your Microsoft licensing costs by upgrading to 4th generation AMD processors

This post is written by Jeremy Girven, Solutions Architect at AWS and Chase Lindeman, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS. Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AMD have collaborated since 2018 to deliver cost effective performance for a broad variety of Microsoft workloads, such as Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SharePoint Server, Microsoft Systems […]

Changing CPU options after instance launch

Retaining Optimize CPUs configuration during Amazon EC2 scaling to save on licensing costs

This post is written by Rafet Ducic, Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS) Introduction Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) now lets you modify CPU configurations after an instance has launched. With this new feature, users can change instance CPU settings either by directly modifying the CPU configuration, or when changing instance size […]

Enabling high availability of Amazon EC2 instances on AWS Outposts servers (Part 2)

This blog post was written by Brianna Rosentrater – Hybrid Edge Specialist SA and Jessica Win – Software Development Engineer This post is Part 2 of the two-part series ‘Enabling high availability of Amazon EC2 instances on AWS Outposts servers’, providing you with code samples and considerations for implementing custom logic to automate Amazon Elastic […]

Amazon EC2 auto-relaunch custom logic on AWS Outposts server architecture.

Enabling high availability of Amazon EC2 instances on AWS Outposts servers (Part 1)

This blog post is written by Brianna Rosentrater – Hybrid Edge Specialist SA and Jessica Win – Software Development Engineer. This post is part 1 of the two-part series ‘Enabling high availability of Amazon EC2 instances on AWS Outposts servers’, providing you with code samples and considerations for implementing custom logic to automate Amazon Elastic […]

Figure 1: CPU usage. c7g.16xl on the left, reference on the right.

Using Amazon APerf to go from 50% below to 36% above performance target

This post is written by Tyler Jones, Senior Solutions Architect – Graviton, AWS. Performance tuning the Renaissance Finagle-http benchmark Sometimes software doesn’t perform the way it’s expected to across different systems. This can be due to a configuration error, code bug, or differences in hardware performance. Amazon APerf is a powerful tool designed to help […]

Implementing network traffic inspection on AWS Outposts rack

This blog post is written by Brian Daugherty, Principal Solutions Architect. Enrico Liguori, Solution Architect, Networking. Sedji Gaouaou, Senior Solution Architect, Hybrid Cloud. Network traffic inspection on AWS Outposts rack is a crucial aspect of making sure of security and compliance within your on-premises environment. With network traffic inspection, you can gain visibility into the […]