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Quickly Restore Amazon EC2 Mac Instances using Replace Root Volume capability

This post is written by Sebastien Stormacq, Principal Developer Advocate. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) now supports replacing the root volume on a running EC2 Mac instance, enabling you to restore the root volume of an EC2 Mac instance to its initial launch state, to a specific snapshot, or to a new Amazon Machine […]

Integrating AWS WAF with your Amazon Lightsail instance

This blog post is written by Riaz Panjwani, Solutions Architect, Canada CSC and Dylan Souvage, Solutions Architect, Canada CSC. Security is the top priority at AWS. This post shows how you can level up your application security posture on your Amazon Lightsail instances with an AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF) integration. Amazon Lightsail offers […]

Prior to this feature, you could not send traffic to the local gateway, as you could not set a route that was more specific than the VPC's CIDR Range

Introducing Intra-VPC Communication Across Multiple Outposts with Direct VPC Routing

This blog post is written by Jared Thompson, Specialist Solutions Architect, Hybrid Edge. Today, we announced AWS Outposts rack support for intra-VPC communication across multiple Outposts. You can now add routes in your Outposts rack subnet route table to forward traffic between subnets within the same VPC spanning across multiple Outposts using the Outpost local […]

Using and Managing Security Groups on AWS Snowball Edge devices

This blog post is written by Jared Novotny & Tareq Rajabi, Specialist Hybrid Edge Solution Architects.  The AWS Snow family of products are purpose-built devices that allow petabyte-scale movement of data from on-premises locations to AWS Regions. Snow devices also enable customers to run Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances with Amazon Elastic Block […]

AWS VPC showing EC2 Instances mounting Amazon EFS in the Region

Providing durable storage for AWS Outposts servers using AWS Snowcone

This blog post is written by Rob Goodwin, Specialist Solutions Architect, Secure Hybrid Edge.  With the announcement of AWS Outposts servers, you now have a streamlined means to deploy AWS Cloud infrastructure to regional offices using the 1 rack unit (1U) or 2 rack unit (2U) Outposts servers where the 42U AWS Outposts rack wasn’t […]

Create, Use, and Troubleshoot Launch Scripts on Amazon Lightsail

This blog post is written by Brian Graf, Senior Developer Advocate, Amazon Lightsail and Sophia Parafina, Senior Developer Advocate.  Amazon Lightsail is a virtual private server (VPS) for deploying both operating systems (OS) and pre-packaged applications, such as WordPress, Plesk, cPanel, PrestaShop, and more. When deploying these instances, you can run launch scripts with additional […]

Automatically delete schedules upon completion with Amazon EventBridge Scheduler

Amazon EventBridge Scheduler now supports configuring automatic deletion of schedules after completion. Now you can configure one-time and recurring schedules with an end date to be automatically deleted upon completion to avoid managing individual schedules. Amazon EventBridge Scheduler allows you to create, run, and manage schedules on scale. Using EventBridge Scheduler, you can schedule millions […]

AWS Nitro Enclaves uses the proven isolation of the Nitro Hypervisor to further isolate the CPU and memory of the Nitro Enclaves from users, applications, and libraries on the parent instance.

Validating attestation documents produced by AWS Nitro Enclaves

This blog post is written by Paco Gonzalez Senior EMEA IoT Specialist SA. AWS Nitro Enclaves offers an isolated, hardened, and highly constrained environment to host security-critical applications. Think of AWS Nitro Enclaves as regular Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) virtual machines (VMs) but with the added benefit of the environment being highly constrained. […]

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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, […]

Secure Connectivity from Public to Private: Introducing EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint

This blog post is written by Ariana Rahgozar, Solutions Architect, and Kenneth Kitts, Sr. Technical Account Manager, AWS. Imagine trying to connect to an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) over the Internet. Typically, you’d first have to connect to a bastion host with a public […]