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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 […]

Implementing architectural patterns with Amazon EventBridge Pipes

This post is written by Dominik Richter (Solutions Architect) Architectural patterns help you solve recurring challenges in software design. They are blueprints that have been used and tested many times. When you design distributed applications, enterprise integration patterns (EIP) help you integrate distributed components. For example, they describe how to integrate third-party services into your […]

architecture overview

Automating your workload deployments in AWS Local Zones

This blog post is written by Enrico Liguori, SA – Solutions Builder , WWPS Solution Architecture. AWS Local Zones are a type of infrastructure deployment that places compute, storage,and other select AWS services close to large population and industry centers. We now have a total of 32 Local Zones; 15 outside of the US (Bangkok, […]

Three EC2 instances are connected to an AWS subnet. There's an overlay network that spans all three instances.The router instance connects the overlay network to the AWS subnet. The management instance contains the CloudStack management service, which is attached to the overlay network. The host instance contains the CloudStack agent and some VMs, all of which are connected to the overlay network.

Building a Cloud in the Cloud: Running Apache CloudStack on Amazon EC2, Part 2

This blog is written by Mark Rogers, SDE II – Customer Engineering AWS. In part 1, I showed you how to run Apache CloudStack with KVM on a single Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance. That simple setup is great for experimentation and light workloads. In this post, things will get a lot more […]

EC2 instance summary info showing 1 instance, CentOS 7 (x86_64) AMI, c5.metal instance type, a security group name, and a 500 GiB volume

Building a Cloud in the Cloud: Running Apache CloudStack on Amazon EC2, Part 1

This blog is written by Mark Rogers, SDE II – Customer Engineering AWS. How do you put a cloud inside another cloud? Some features that make Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) secure and wonderful also make running CloudStack difficult. The biggest obstacle is that AWS and CloudStack both want to manage network resources. Therefore, we must […]

DNS-based load balancing

Enabling load-balancing of non-HTTP(s) traffic on AWS Wavelength

This blog post is written by Jack Chen, Telco Solutions Architect, and Robert Belson, Developer Advocate. AWS Wavelength embeds AWS compute and storage services within 5G networks, providing mobile edge computing infrastructure for developing, deploying, and scaling ultra-low-latency applications. AWS recently introduced support for Application Load Balancer (ALB) in AWS Wavelength zones. Although ALB addresses […]

Scaling AWS Outposts rack deployments with ACE racks

This blog post is written by Eric Vasquez, Specialist Hybrid Edge Solutions Architect, and Paul Scherer, Senior Network Service Tech. Overview AWS Outposts brings managed, monitored AWS infrastructure, compute, and storage to your on-premises environment. It provides the same AWS APIs, and console experience you would get within the AWS Region to which the Outpost […]

AWS Local Zones how it works

AWS Local Zones and AWS Outposts, choosing the right technology for your edge workload

This blog post is written by Joe Sacco, Senior Technical Account Manager. The AWS Global Cloud Infrastructure includes 30 Launched Regions, 96 Availability Zones (AZs), 410+ Points of Presence with 400+ Edge Locations, and 13 Regional Edge Caches.  With over 200 AWS services, most customer workloads can run in the AWS Regions. However, for some […]

Starting up faster with AWS Lambda SnapStart

This blog written by Tarun Rai Madan, Sr. Product Manager, AWS Lambda, Mike Danilov, Sr. Principal Engineer, AWS Lambda, and Colm MacCárthaigh, VP/Distinguished Engineer, EC2. AWS Lambda SnapStart is a new performance optimization developed by AWS that can significantly improve the startup time for applications. Announced at AWS re:Invent 2022, the first capability to feature […]