AWS Compute Blog
Category: Amazon EC2
Building a Cloud in the Cloud: Running Apache CloudStack on Amazon EC2, Part 1
This blog is written by Mark Rogers, SDE II – Customer Engineering AWS. How do you put a cloud inside another cloud? Some features that make Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) secure and wonderful also make running CloudStack difficult. The biggest obstacle is that AWS and CloudStack both want to manage network resources. Therefore, we must […]
Enabling load-balancing of non-HTTP(s) traffic on AWS Wavelength
This blog post is written by Jack Chen, Telco Solutions Architect, and Robert Belson, Developer Advocate. AWS Wavelength embeds AWS compute and storage services within 5G networks, providing mobile edge computing infrastructure for developing, deploying, and scaling ultra-low-latency applications. AWS recently introduced support for Application Load Balancer (ALB) in AWS Wavelength zones. Although ALB addresses […]
Our guide to AWS Compute at re:Invent 2022
This blog post is written by Shruti Koparkar, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Amazon EC2. AWS re:Invent is the most transformative event in cloud computing and it is starting on November 28, 2022. AWS Compute team has many exciting sessions planned for you covering everything from foundational content, to technology deep dives, customer stories, and even […]
Introducing the price-capacity-optimized allocation strategy for EC2 Spot Instances
This blog post is written by Jagdeep Phoolkumar, Senior Specialist Solution Architect, Flexible Compute and Peter Manastyrny, Senior Product Manager Tech, EC2 Core. Amazon EC2 Spot Instances are unused Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) capacity in the AWS Cloud available at up to a 90% discount compared to On-Demand prices. One of the best […]
Running AI-ML Object Detection Model to Process Confidential Data using Nitro Enclaves
This blog post was written by, Antoine Awad, Solutions Architect, Kevin Taylor, Senior Solutions Architect and Joel Desaulniers, Senior Solutions Architect. Machine Learning (ML) models are used for inferencing of highly sensitive data in many industries such as government, healthcare, financial, and pharmaceutical. These industries require tools and services that protect their data in transit, […]
Simplifying Amazon EC2 instance type flexibility with new attribute-based instance type selection features
This blog is written by Rajesh Kesaraju, Sr. Solution Architect, EC2-Flexible Compute and Peter Manastyrny, Sr. Product Manager, EC2. Today AWS is adding two new attributes for the attribute-based instance type selection (ABS) feature to make it even easier to create and manage instance type flexible configurations on Amazon EC2. The new network bandwidth attribute […]
Building highly resilient applications with on-premises interdependencies using AWS Local Zones
This blog post is written by Rachel Rui Liu, Senior Solutions Architect. 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. Following the successful launch of the AWS Local Zones in 16 US cities since 2019, in Feb 2022, AWS […]
Adding approval notifications to EC2 Image Builder before sharing AMIs
This blog post is written by, Glenn Chia Jin Wee, Associate Cloud Architect, and Randall Han, Professional Services. You may be required to manually validate the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) built from an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Image Builder pipeline before sharing this AMI to other AWS accounts or to an AWS organization. […]
Best Practices for Hosting Regulated Gaming Workloads in AWS Local Zones and on AWS Outposts
This blog post is written by Shiv Bhatt, Manthan Raval, and Pawan Matta, who are Senior Solutions Architects with AWS. Many industries are subject to regulations that are created to protect the interests of the various stakeholders. For some industries, the specific details of the regulatory requirements influence not only the organization’s operations, but also […]
Deploying Local Gateway Ingress Routing on AWS Outposts
This post is written by Leonardo Solano, Senior Hybrid Cloud Solution Architect and Chris Lunsford, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS Outposts. AWS Outposts lets customers use the same Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) security mechanisms, such as security groups and network access control lists, to control traffic flows for on-premises applications running on Outposts. Some […]






