AWS Compute Blog
Category: Database
Building Simpler Genomics Workflows on AWS Step Functions
This post is courtesy of Ryan Ulaszek, AWS Genomics Partner Solutions Architect and Aaron Friedman, AWS Healthcare and Life Sciences Partner Solutions Architect In 2017, we published a four part blog series on how to build a genomics workflow on AWS. In part 1, we introduced a general architecture highlighting three common layers: job, batch and […]
Amazon ElastiCache performance boost with Amazon EC2 M5 and R5 instances
Contributed by Ruchita Arora, Sr. Product Manager, Allen Farris, Software Dev Engineer, and Itay Maoz, Sr. Software Engineering Manager Earlier this year, Amazon EC2 introduced two exciting new instance families, M5 and R5. These instances are based on the new AWS Nitro system, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor that aims to deliver […]
Implementing Serverless Video Subtitles
This post is courtesy of Maxime Thomas, DevOps Partner Solutions Architect – AWS This story begins when I joined AWS at the beginning of the year. I had a hard time during my ramp-up period trying to handle the amount of information coming from all directions. Technical training, meetings, new colleagues, in a worldwide company—the […]
Migrating a multi-tier application from a Microsoft Hyper-V environment using AWS SMS and AWS Migration Hub
This post courtesy of Shane Baldacchino, AWS Solutions Architect Many customers ask for guidance to migrate end-to-end solutions running in their on-premises data center to AWS. This post provides an overview of moving a common blogging platform, WordPress, running on an on-premises virtualized Microsoft Hyper-V platform to AWS, including re-pointing the DNS records associated to […]
Innovation Flywheels and the AWS Serverless Application Repository
At AWS, our customers have always been the motivation for our innovation. In turn, we’re committed to helping them accelerate the pace of their own innovation. It was in the spirit of helping our customers achieve their objectives faster that we launched AWS Lambda in 2014, eliminating the burden of server management and enabling AWS […]
Managing Cross-Account Serverless Microservices
This post courtesy of Michael Edge, Sr. Cloud Architect – AWS Professional Services Applications built using a microservices architecture typically result in a number of independent, loosely coupled microservices communicating with each other, synchronously via their APIs and asynchronously via events. These microservices are often owned by different product teams, and these teams may segregate their […]
How To Migrate Multi-Tier Environments Using The AWS Server Migration Service
This post courtesy of Shane Baldacchino, Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services. Many customers ask for guidance on migrating end-to-end solutions running on virtual machines over to AWS. This post provides an overview of moving a common WordPress blog running on a virtualized platform to AWS, including re-pointing the DNS records associated to with the […]
Event-Driven Computing with Amazon SNS and AWS Compute, Storage, Database, and Networking Services
Contributed by Otavio Ferreira, Manager, Software Development, AWS Messaging Like other developers around the world, you may be tackling increasingly complex business problems. A key success factor, in that case, is the ability to break down a large project scope into smaller, more manageable components. A service-oriented architecture guides you toward designing systems as a collection of […]