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Visualizing Amazon API Gateway usage plans using Amazon QuickSight
In this post, I walk through configuring streaming of API access logs from Amazon API Gateway to Amazon S3 via a Kinesis Firehose delivery stream.
OpenFOAM on Amazon EC2 C6g Arm-based Graviton2 Instances – up to 37% better price/performance
This post is contributed to by: Neil Ashton (AWS) – Principal CFD Specialist SA, Karthik Raman (AWS) – Senior HPC Specialist SA, Oliver Perks (Arm) – Principal HPC Engineer Over the past 30 years, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has become a key part of many engineering design processes. From aircraft design to modelling the blood flow […]
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.
Building for Cost optimization and Resilience for EKS with Spot Instances
This post is contributed by Chris Foote, Sr. EC2 Spot Specialist Solutions Architect Running your Kubernetes and containerized workloads on Amazon EC2 Spot Instances is a great way to save costs. Kubernetes is a popular open-source container management system that allows you to deploy and manage containerized applications at scale. AWS makes it easy to run […]
Proactively Monitoring System Performance on Amazon Lightsail Instances
This post is contributed by Mike Coleman, AWS Senior Developer Advocate – Lightsail I commonly hear from customers that they want to be able to proactively identify issues that could affect system performance before they become a problem. For instance, the ability to be alerted before an instance might become unresponsive to a burst in […]
Simplifying application orchestration with AWS Step Functions and AWS SAM
Modern software applications consist of multiple components distributed across many services. AWS Step Functions lets you define serverless workflows to orchestrate these services so you can build and update your apps quickly. Step Functions manages its own state and retries when there are errors, enabling you to focus on your business logic. Now, with support […]
Building scalable serverless applications with Amazon S3 and AWS Lambda
S3 and Lambda are two highly scalable AWS services that can be powerful when combined in serverless applications. In this post, I summarize many of the patterns shown across this series.
Best practices for organizing larger serverless applications
This blog post provides recommendations for designing and managing code repositories in larger serverless projects, and best practices for deploying releases of production systems.
Running Web Applications on Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
This post is contributed by Isaac Vallhonrat, Sr. EC2 Spot Specialist SA Amazon EC2 Spot Instances allow customers to save up to 90% compared to On-Demand pricing by leveraging spare EC2 capacity. Spot Instances are a perfect fit for fault tolerant workloads that are flexible to run on multiple instance types such as batch jobs, […]
Using dynamic Amazon S3 event handling with Amazon EventBridge
The standard S3 to Lambda integration enables developers to deploy code that responds to bucket- or object-based events. Using Amazon EventBridge, you can employ even more sophisticated routing and filtering of events between S3 and Lambda.








