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Monitoring shared AWS Outposts rack capacity
This post is written by Adam Imeson, Sr. Hybrid Edge Specialist Solutions Architect. AWS Outposts rack is a fully-managed service that offers the same AWS infrastructure, APIs, tools, and a subset of AWS services to any data center, colocation space, or on-premises facility for a consistent hybrid experience. Outposts rack is ideal for workloads that […]
Our guide to AWS Compute at re:Invent 2022
This blog post is written by Shruti Koparkar, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Amazon EC2. AWS re:Invent is the most transformative event in cloud computing and it is starting on November 28, 2022. AWS Compute team has many exciting sessions planned for you covering everything from foundational content, to technology deep dives, customer stories, and even […]
Introducing the price-capacity-optimized allocation strategy for EC2 Spot Instances
This blog post is written by Jagdeep Phoolkumar, Senior Specialist Solution Architect, Flexible Compute and Peter Manastyrny, Senior Product Manager Tech, EC2 Core. Amazon EC2 Spot Instances are unused Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) capacity in the AWS Cloud available at up to a 90% discount compared to On-Demand prices. One of the best […]
Better together: AWS SAM CLI and HashiCorp Terraform
This post is written by Suresh Poopandi, Senior Solutions Architect and Seb Kasprzak, Senior Solutions Architect. Today, AWS is announcing the public preview of AWS Serverless Application Model CLI (AWS SAM CLI) support for local development, testing, and debugging of serverless applications defined using HashiCorp Terraform configuration. AWS SAM and Terraform are open-source frameworks for […]
Simplifying Amazon EC2 instance type flexibility with new attribute-based instance type selection features
This blog is written by Rajesh Kesaraju, Sr. Solution Architect, EC2-Flexible Compute and Peter Manastyrny, Sr. Product Manager, EC2. Today AWS is adding two new attributes for the attribute-based instance type selection (ABS) feature to make it even easier to create and manage instance type flexible configurations on Amazon EC2. The new network bandwidth attribute […]
Building highly resilient applications with on-premises interdependencies using AWS Local Zones
This blog post is written by Rachel Rui Liu, Senior Solutions Architect. AWS Local Zones are a type of infrastructure deployment that places compute, storage, database, and other select AWS services close to large population and industry centers. Following the successful launch of the AWS Local Zones in 16 US cities since 2019, in Feb 2022, AWS […]
Propagating valid mTLS client certificate identity to downstream services using Amazon API Gateway
This blog written by Omkar Deshmane, Senior SA and Anton Aleksandrov, Principal SA, Serverless. This blog shows how to use Amazon API Gateway with a custom authorizer to process incoming requests, validate the mTLS client certificate, extract the client certificate subject, and propagate it to the downstream application in a base64 encoded HTTP header. This […]
Adding approval notifications to EC2 Image Builder before sharing AMIs
This blog post is written by, Glenn Chia Jin Wee, Associate Cloud Architect, and Randall Han, Professional Services. You may be required to manually validate the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) built from an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Image Builder pipeline before sharing this AMI to other AWS accounts or to an AWS organization. […]
Simplifying serverless permissions with AWS SAM Connectors
This post written by Kurt Tometich, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS. Developers have been using the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) to streamline the development of serverless applications with AWS since late 2018. Besides making it easier to create, build, test, and deploy serverless applications, AWS SAM now further simplifies permission management between serverless components […]
Best Practices for Hosting Regulated Gaming Workloads in AWS Local Zones and on AWS Outposts
This blog post is written by Shiv Bhatt, Manthan Raval, and Pawan Matta, who are Senior Solutions Architects with AWS. Many industries are subject to regulations that are created to protect the interests of the various stakeholders. For some industries, the specific details of the regulatory requirements influence not only the organization’s operations, but also […]






