AWS Compute Blog
Category: Management Tools
Managing AWS Lambda runtime upgrades
This post is written by Julian Wood, Principal Developer Advocate, and Dan Fox, Principal Specialist Serverless Solutions Architect. AWS Lambda supports multiple programming languages through the use of runtimes. A Lambda runtime provides a language-specific execution environment, which provides the OS, language support, and additional settings, such as environment variables and certificates that you can access from […]
An attendee’s guide to hybrid cloud and edge computing at AWS re:Invent 2023
This post is written by Savitha Swaminathan, AWS Sr. Product Marketing Manager AWS re:Invent 2023 starts on Nov 27th in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event brings technology business leaders, AWS partners, developers, and IT practitioners together to learn about the latest innovations, meet AWS experts, and network among their peer attendees. This year, AWS re:Invent […]
Enhanced Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon EventBridge
This blog shows how to use these new metrics to improve the visibility of event flows in your event-driven applications. It helps you monitor the events more effectively, from invocation until the delivery to the target. This improves observability by proactively alerting on key metrics.
Detecting and stopping recursive loops in AWS Lambda functions
This post is written by Pawan Puthran, Principal Serverless Specialist TAM, Aneel Murari, Senior Serverless Specialist Solution Architect, and Shree Shrikhande, Senior AWS Lambda Product Manager. AWS Lambda is announcing a recursion control to detect and stop Lambda functions running in a recursive or infinite loop. At launch, this feature is available for Lambda integrations […]
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, […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Serverless ICYMI Q1 2023
February 12, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Welcome to the 21st edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. Every quarter, we share all the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts, webinars, […]