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Category: Best Practices

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 […]

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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 […]

Figure 4 An example workflow for a EC2 Image Builder Cascading Pipelines

Implementing up-to-date images with automated EC2 Image Builder pipelines

This blog post is written by Devin Gordon, Senior Solutions Architect, WWPS, and Brad Watson, Senior Solutions Architect, WWPS. Amazon EC2 Image Builder is a service designed to simplify the creation and deployment of customized Virtual Machine (VM) and container images on AWS or on-premises. The posts Automate OS Image Build Pipelines with EC2 Image […]

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Architecting for data residency with AWS Outposts rack and landing zone guardrails

This blog post was written by Abeer Naffa’, Sr. Solutions Architect, Solutions Builder AWS, David Filiatrault, Principal Security Consultant, AWS and Jared Thompson, Hybrid Edge SA Specialist, AWS. In this post, we will explore how organizations can use AWS Control Tower landing zone and AWS Organizations custom guardrails to enable compliance with data residency requirements […]

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How to create custom health checks for your Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Fleet

This blog post is written by Gaurav Verma, Cloud Infrastructure Architect, Professional Services AWS. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling helps you maintain application availability and lets you automatically add or remove Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances according to the conditions that you define. You can use dynamic and predictive scaling to scale-out and scale-in […]

Figure 1: Architecture diagram showing the components deployed by the AWS SAM template. These include an SQS queue, an Auto Scaling group responsible for polling and processing queue messages, a Lambda function that regularly updates the BPI CloudWatch metric, and a “Target Setter” Lambda function that regularly updates the Auto Scaling group’s target tracking scaling policy.

Scaling an ASG using target tracking with a dynamic SQS target

This blog post is written by Wassim Benhallam, Sr Cloud Application Architect AWS WWCO ProServe, and Rajesh Kesaraju, Sr. Specialist Solution Architect, EC2 Flexible Compute. Scaling an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group based on Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) is a commonly used design pattern in decoupled applications. For example, an EC2 Auto Scaling […]

A diagram showing how an EC2 instance on an Outpost communicates with on-premises network using direct VPC routing mode

How to choose between CoIP and Direct VPC routing modes on AWS Outposts rack

This blog post is written by Sumit Menaria, Senior Hybrid Solutions Architect AWS WWSO Core Services. AWS Outposts Rack is a fully-managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to customer premises. By providing local access to AWS managed infrastructure and services, Outposts rack enables customers to build and run applications on premises […]

This figure shows the CloudWatch graph of three metrics – the total CPU Utilization of the Auto Scaling group, the load forecast generated by predictive scaling, and the derived metric using metric math that measures error for over-forecasting

Adopt Recommendations and Monitor Predictive Scaling for Optimal Compute Capacity

This post is written by Ankur Sethi, Sr. Product Manager, EC2, and Kinnar Sen, Sr. Specialist Solution Architect, AWS Compute. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling helps customers optimize their Amazon EC2 capacity by dynamically responding to varying demand. Based on customer feedback, we enhanced the scaling experience with the launch of predictive scaling policies. Predictive scaling […]

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Introducing AWS Lambda runtime management controls

This blog post is written by Jonathan Tuliani, Principal Product Manager. Today, AWS Lambda is announcing runtime management controls which provide more visibility and control over when Lambda applies runtime updates to your functions. Lambda is also changing how it rolls out automatic runtime updates to your functions. Together, these changes provide more flexibility in […]

Building Sustainable, Efficient, and Cost-Optimized Applications on AWS

This blog post is written by Isha Dua Sr. Solutions Architect AWS, Ananth Kommuri Solutions Architect AWS, Dr. Sam Mokhtari Sr. Sustainability Lead SA WA for AWS, and Adam Boeglin, Principal Specialist  EC2 Sustainability. Today, more than ever, sustainability and cost-savings are top of mind for nearly every organization. Research has shown that AWS’ infrastructure […]