AWS Compute Blog

Category: Amazon EC2

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 […]

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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 […]

AWS Nitro Enclaves uses the proven isolation of the Nitro Hypervisor to further isolate the CPU and memory of the Nitro Enclaves from users, applications, and libraries on the parent instance.

Validating attestation documents produced by AWS Nitro Enclaves

This blog post is written by Paco Gonzalez Senior EMEA IoT Specialist SA. AWS Nitro Enclaves offers an isolated, hardened, and highly constrained environment to host security-critical applications. Think of AWS Nitro Enclaves as regular Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) virtual machines (VMs) but with the added benefit of the environment being highly constrained. […]

Deploying low-latency hybrid cloud storage on AWS Local Zones using AWS Storage Gateway

This blog post is written by Ruchi Nigam, Senior Cloud Support Engineer and Sumit Menaria, Senior Hybrid SA. AWS Local Zones are a type of infrastructure deployment that places compute, storage, database, and other select AWS services close to large population and industry centers. With Local Zones close to large population centers in metro areas, […]

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Deploying an automated Amazon CloudWatch dashboard for AWS Outposts using AWS CDK

This post is written by Enrico Liguori, Networking Solutions Architect, Hybrid Cloud and Sumeeth Siriyur, Sr. Hybrid Cloud Solutions Architect. AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that brings the same AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to virtually any data center, colocation space, manufacturing floor, or on-premises facility where it might be needed. With Outposts, […]

Secure Connectivity from Public to Private: Introducing EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint

This blog post is written by Ariana Rahgozar, Solutions Architect, and Kenneth Kitts, Sr. Technical Account Manager, AWS. Imagine trying to connect to an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) over the Internet. Typically, you’d first have to connect to a bastion host with a public […]

Selecting cost effective capacity reservations for your business-critical workloads on Amazon EC2

This blog post is written by Sarath Krishnan, Senior Solutions Architect and Navdeep Singh, Senior Customer Solutions Manager. Amazon CTO Werner Vogels famously said, “everything fails all the time.” Designing your systems for failure is important for ensuring availability, scalability, fault tolerance and business continuity. Resilient systems scale with your business demand changes, prevent data […]

Architecture diagram featuring adding a Resource Group of On Demand Capacity Reservations with 3 On Demand Capacity Reservations per Availability Zone.

Reserving EC2 Capacity across Availability Zones by utilizing On Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCRs)

This post is written by Johan Hedlund, Senior Solutions Architect, Enterprise PUMA. Many customers have successfully migrated business critical legacy workloads to AWS, utilizing services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs), as well as the use of Multiple Availability Zones (AZs), Regions for Business Continuity, and High Availability. These […]

Best practices to optimize your Amazon EC2 Spot Instances usage

This blog post is written by Pranaya Anshu, EC2 PMM, and Sid Ambatipudi, EC2 Compute GTM Specialist. Amazon EC2 Spot Instances are a powerful tool that thousands of customers use to optimize their compute costs. The National Football League (NFL) is an example of customer using Spot Instances, leveraging 4000 EC2 Spot Instances across more […]