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Making your Go workloads up to 20% faster with Go 1.18 and AWS Graviton

This blog post was written by Syl Taylor, Professional Services Consultant. In March 2022, the highly anticipated Go 1.18 was released. Go 1.18 brings to the language some long-awaited features and additions, such as generics. It also brings significant performance improvements for Arm’s 64-bit architecture used in AWS Graviton server processors. In this post, we […]

Building resilient private APIs using Amazon API Gateway

This post written by Giedrius Praspaliauskas, Senior Solutions Architect, Serverless. Modern architectures meet recovery objectives (recovery time objective, RTO, and recovery point objective, RPO) by being resilient to routine and unexpected infrastructure disruptions. Depending on the recovery objectives and regulatory requirements, developers must choose the disaster recovery strategy. For more on disaster recovery strategies, see […]

Orchestrating Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive object retrieval using AWS Step Functions

This blog was written by Monica Cortes Sack, Solutions Architect, Oskar Neumann, Partner Solutions Architect, and Dhiraj Mahapatro, Principal Specialist SA, Serverless. AWS Step Functions now support over 220 services and over 10,000 AWS API actions. This enables you to use the AWS SDK integration directly instead of writing an AWS Lambda function as a proxy. One […]

System architecture of the amazon ec2 dl1 instances.

Amazon EC2 DL1 instances Deep Dive

This post is written by Amr Ragab, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon EC2. AWS is excited to announce that the new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) DL1 instances are now generally available in US-East (N. Virginia) and US-West (Oregon). DL1 provides up to 40% better price performance for training deep learning models as compared to […]

Automate the Creation of On-Demand Capacity Reservations for running EC2 instances

This post is written by Ballu Singh a Principal Solutions Architect at AWS, Neha Joshi a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS, and Naveen Jagathesan a Technical Account Manager at AWS. Customers have asked how they can “create On-Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCRs) for their existing instances during events, such as the holiday season, Black Friday, marketing […]

Building TypeScript projects with AWS SAM CLI

This post written by Dan Fox, Principal Specialist Solutions Architect and Roman Boiko, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect The AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) CLI provides developers with a local tool for managing serverless applications on AWS. This command line tool allows developers to initialize and configure applications, build and test locally, and deploy to […]

EC2 instance block device mapping

How to mount Linux volume and keep mount point consistency

This post is written by: Leonardo Azize Martins, Cloud Infrastructure Architect, Professional Services Customers often use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Linux based instances with many Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes attached. In this case, device name can vary depending on some facts, such as virtualization type, instance type, or operating system. […]

Instance Details showing the number of vCPU's a particular EC2 machine has

Expanding Your EC2 Possibilities By Utilizing the CPU Launch Options

This post is written by: Matthew Brunton, Senior Solutions Architect – WWPS To ensure our customers have the appropriate machines available for their workloads, AWS offers a wide range of hardware options that include hundreds of types of instances that help customers achieve the best price performance for their workloads.  In some specialized circumstances, our […]

Mocking service integrations with AWS Step Functions Local

This post is written by Sam Dengler, Principal Specialist Solutions Architect, and Dhiraj Mahapatro, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect. AWS Step Functions now supports over 200 AWS Service integrations via AWS SDK Integration. Developers want to build and test control flow logic for workflows using branching logic, error handling, and retries. This allows for precise workflow execution with deterministic […]

Deep dive into NitroTPM and UEFI Secure Boot support in Amazon EC2

Contributed by Samartha Chandrashekar, Principal Product Manager Amazon EC2 At re:Invent 2021, we announced NitroTPM, a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 and Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot support in Amazon EC2. In this blog post, we’ll share additional details on how these capabilities can help further raise the security bar of EC2 deployments. […]