AWS Compute Blog
Category: Technical How-to
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 […]
Using Amazon SQS dead-letter queues to replay messages
This is courtesy of Alexandre Pinhel, Specialist SA Manager, in collaboration with Guillaume Marchand and Luke Hargreaves, Solutions Architects. Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service. It enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. A commonly used feature of Amazon SQS is dead-letter queues. The […]
Managing your AWS Outposts capacity using Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Lambda
This post is authored by Carlos Castro, AWS Principal Solutions Architect and Kevin Wang, AWS Associate Solutions Architect Customers are excited about using AWS Outposts to bring services and capabilities available on AWS to on-premises for workloads that require low-latency, local data processing, or local data storage. As part of this, the responsibility for managing […]
Getting started with RPA using AWS Step Functions and Amazon Textract
This post is courtesy of Joe Tringali, Solutions Architect. Many organizations are using robotic process automation (RPA) to automate workflow, back-office processes that are labor-intensive. RPA, as software bots, can often handle many of these activities. Often RPA workflows contain repetitive manual tasks that must be done by humans, such as viewing invoices to find […]
Integrating AWS Outposts with existing security zones
This post is contributed by Santiago Freitas, AWS Head of Technology EEM and Matt Lehwess, Principal Developer Advocate. AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to your on-premises facility. This blog post explains how the resources created on an Outpost can be integrated with security zones of […]
Announcing Outposts and local gateway sharing for multi-account access
This post was contributed by James Devine, Sr. Outposts SA AWS Outposts enables customers to run AWS services in their on-premises environments. With the release of Outposts and local gateway (LGW) sharing, customers can now configure multi-account access and sharing within an AWS Organization. Prior to this release, an Outpost was only viable within a single […]
Building event-driven architectures with Amazon SNS FIFO
Amazon SNS FIFO topics can simplify the design of event-driven architecture and reduce custom code in building such applications.
Fire Dynamics Simulation CFD workflow using AWS ParallelCluster, Elastic Fabric Adapter, Amazon FSx for Lustre and NICE DCV
This post was written by By Kevin Tuil, AWS HPC consultant Modeling fires is key for many industries, from the design of new buildings, defining evacuation procedures for trains, planes and ships, and even the spread of wildfires. Modeling these fires is complex. It involves both the need to model the three-dimensional unsteady turbulent flow […]
Building resilient serverless patterns by combining messaging services
Queues, publish/subscribe services, and event buses are important parts of a resilient, well-architected serverless application. These are provided in AWS by SQS, SNS, and EventBridge.
Custom logging with AWS Batch
This post was written by Christian Kniep, Senior Developer Advocate for HPC and AWS Batch. For HPC workloads, visibility into the logs of jobs is important to debug a job which failed, but also to have insights into a running job and track its trajectory to influence the configuration of the next job or terminate […]