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Figure 1 Landing Zones Accelerator Local Zones workload on AWS high level Architecture

Best Practices for managing data residency in AWS Local Zones using landing zone controls

This blog post is written by Abeer Naffa’, Sr. Solutions Architect, Solutions Builder AWS, David Filiatrault, Principal Security Consultant, and Jared Thompson Hybrid Edge SA Specialist. In this post, we discuss how you can leverage AWS Control Tower landing zone and AWS Organizations custom policies – guardrails – at the root level, known as Service […]

AWS Lambda now supports Java 17

This post was written by Mark Sailes, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, Serverless. You can now develop AWS Lambda functions with the Amazon Corretto distribution of Java 17. This version of Corretto comes with long-term support (LTS), which means it will receive updates and bug fixes for an extended period, providing stability and reliability to developers […]

Architectural diagram: CDK building connections between EventBridge, Lambda, S3, and CloudWatch to generate dashboards

Optimizing Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with Spot Placement Scores

This blog post is written by Steve Cole, Principal Specialist SA, and Robert McCone, Sr. Specialist SA. Getting the compute resources you need, even vCPUS numbering in the millions, and completing a workload using Amazon EC2 Spot Instances is just a configuration away. In this post you will learn how to use Spot placement scores […]

Implementing error handling for AWS Lambda asynchronous invocations

This blog is written by Poornima Chand, Senior Solutions Architect, Strategic Accounts and Giedrius Praspaliauskas, Senior Solutions Architect, Serverless. AWS Lambda functions allow both synchronous and asynchronous invocations, which both have different function behaviors and error handling: When you invoke a function synchronously, Lambda returns any unhandled errors in the function code back to the […]

Architecture Diagram depicting the integration between AWS Systems Manager with RunCommand Arguments stored in SSM Parameter Store, your Amazon GPU enabled EC2 instance with installed Amazon CloudWatch Agen­t, and Amazon CloudWatch Dashboard that aggregates and displays the ­reported metrics.

Optimizing GPU utilization for AI/ML workloads on Amazon EC2

­­­­This blog post is written by Ben Minahan, DevOps Consultant, and Amir Sotoodeh, Machine Learning Engineer. Machine learning workloads can be costly, and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) teams can have a difficult time tracking and maintaining efficient resource utilization. ML workloads often utilize GPUs extensively, so typical application performance metrics such as CPU, memory, and […]

Figure 5: The webpage of the Android streaming game portal.

Streaming Android games from cloud to mobile with AWS Graviton-based Amazon EC2 G5g instances

This blog post is written by Vincent Wang, GCR EC2 Specialist SA, Compute. Streaming games from the cloud to mobile devices is an emerging technology that allows less powerful and less expensive devices to play high-quality games with lower battery consumption and less storage capacity. This technology enables a wider audience to enjoy high-end gaming […]