AWS Compute Blog
Category: Customer Solutions
Building a serverless image catalog with AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio
This blog post demonstrates how to implement a serverless image cataloging pipeline using Step Functions Workflow Studio. By orchestrating AWS API actions and flow states via drag and drop, you can process user-generated images. This example checks images for appropriateness and generates tags based on their content without custom application code.
Introducing AWS Virtual Waiting Room
The AWS Virtual Waiting Room solution is available today at no additional cost, provided as open source under the Apache 2 license. It supports customized integration with any front-end application via a variety of integration techniques.
Expanding Your EC2 Possibilities By Utilizing the CPU Launch Options
This post is written by: Matthew Brunton, Senior Solutions Architect – WWPS To ensure our customers have the appropriate machines available for their workloads, AWS offers a wide range of hardware options that include hundreds of types of instances that help customers achieve the best price performance for their workloads. In some specialized circumstances, our […]
Deep dive into NitroTPM and UEFI Secure Boot support in Amazon EC2
Contributed by Samartha Chandrashekar, Principal Product Manager Amazon EC2 At re:Invent 2021, we announced NitroTPM, a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 and Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot support in Amazon EC2. In this blog post, we’ll share additional details on how these capabilities can help further raise the security bar of EC2 deployments. […]
Introducing Spot Blueprints, a template generator for frameworks like Kubernetes and Apache Spark
This post is authored by Deepthi Chelupati, Senior Product Manager for Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, and Chad Schmutzer, Principal Developer Advocate for Amazon EC2 Customers have been using EC2 Spot Instances to save money and scale workloads to new levels for over a decade. Launched in late 2009, Spot Instances are spare Amazon EC2 compute […]
Low-latency computing with AWS Local Zones – Part 1
This post was contributed by: Pranav Chachra, Rob Chen, Alan Goodman AWS launched a Local Zone in Los Angeles (LA), California, in late 2019 at re:Invent. Since the launch, we have seen a lot of interest from you, and have worked to bring additional features and services based on your feedback. In this blog series, […]
Implementing geohashing at scale in serverless web applications
This blog post explores how you can solve geolocation queries using geohashing. I discuss how you should decide on the resolution of a geohash for your specific workload.
Building a location-based, scalable, serverless web app – part 1
In this post, I introduce the Ask Around Me example web application. Learn to build a serverless realtime, Vue.js web app in part 1 of this series.
Enhancing site security with new Lightsail firewall features
This post is contributed by Mike Coleman, AWS Senior Developer Advocate – Lightsail Amazon Lightsail provides an easy way to get started with AWS for many customers. The service balances ease of use, security, and flexibility. The Lightsail firewall now offers additional features to help customers secure their Lightsail instances. This update offers three new […]
Translating documents at enterprise scale with serverless
Developing a scalable translation solution for thousands of documents can be challenging using traditional, server-based architecture. Using a serverless approach, this becomes much easier since you can use storage and compute services that scale for you.








