AWS Compute Blog
Category: Amazon EC2
Introducing instance maintenance policy for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
This post is written by Ahmed Nada, Principal Solutions Architect, Flexible Compute and Kevin OConnor, Principal Product Manager, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling. Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers around the world trust Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to provision, scale, and manage Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) capacity for their workloads. Customers have come to rely […]
Mixing AWS Graviton with x86 CPUs to optimize cost and resiliency using Amazon EKS
This post is written by Yahav Biran, Principal SA, and Yuval Dovrat, Israel Head Compute SA. This post shows you how to integrate AWS Graviton-based Amazon EC2 instances into an existing Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) environment running on x86-based Amazon EC2 instances. Customers use mixed-CPU architectures to enable their application to utilize a wide selection […]
Maintaining a local copy of your data in AWS Local Zones
This post is written by Leonardo Solano, Senior Hybrid Cloud SA and Obed Gutierrez, Solutions Architect, Enterprise. This post covers data replication strategies to back up your data into AWS Local Zones. These strategies include database replication, file based and object storage replication, and partner solutions for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Customers running […]
Enabling highly available connectivity from on premises to AWS Local Zones
This post is written by Leonardo Solano, Senior Hybrid Cloud SA and Robert Belson SA Developer Advocate. Planning your network topology is a foundational requirement of the reliability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework. REL02-BP02 defines how to provide redundant connectivity between private networks in the cloud and on-premises environments using AWS Direct Connect for […]
Training machine learning models on premises for data residency with AWS Outposts rack
This post is written by Sumit Menaria, Senior Hybrid Solutions Architect, and Boris Alexandrov, Senior Product Manager-Tech. In this post, you will learn how to train machine learning (ML) models on premises using AWS Outposts rack and datasets stored locally in Amazon S3 on Outposts. With the rise in data sovereignty and privacy regulations, organizations […]
Quickly Restore Amazon EC2 Mac Instances using Replace Root Volume capability
This post is written by Sebastien Stormacq, Principal Developer Advocate. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) now supports replacing the root volume on a running EC2 Mac instance, enabling you to restore the root volume of an EC2 Mac instance to its initial launch state, to a specific snapshot, or to a new Amazon Machine […]
Integrating AWS WAF with your Amazon Lightsail instance
This blog post is written by Riaz Panjwani, Solutions Architect, Canada CSC and Dylan Souvage, Solutions Architect, Canada CSC. Security is the top priority at AWS. This post shows how you can level up your application security posture on your Amazon Lightsail instances with an AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF) integration. Amazon Lightsail offers […]
Using and Managing Security Groups on AWS Snowball Edge devices
This blog post is written by Jared Novotny & Tareq Rajabi, Specialist Hybrid Edge Solution Architects. The AWS Snow family of products are purpose-built devices that allow petabyte-scale movement of data from on-premises locations to AWS Regions. Snow devices also enable customers to run Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances with Amazon Elastic Block […]
Create, Use, and Troubleshoot Launch Scripts on Amazon Lightsail
This blog post is written by Brian Graf, Senior Developer Advocate, Amazon Lightsail and Sophia Parafina, Senior Developer Advocate. Amazon Lightsail is a virtual private server (VPS) for deploying both operating systems (OS) and pre-packaged applications, such as WordPress, Plesk, cPanel, PrestaShop, and more. When deploying these instances, you can run launch scripts with additional […]
Building a high-performance Windows workstation on AWS for graphics intensive applications
This blog post is written by Mike Lim, Senior Public Sector SA. Video editing, professional visualization, and video games can be resource demanding applications that require high performance Windows workstations with GPUs. When developing these resource demanding applications, a high-performance remote display protocol is desirable in order to access the instances’ graphical desktops from the […]








