AWS Compute Blog

Contributors: Richard Threlkeld, Gene Ting, Stefano Buliani The full code for both scenarios—including SAM templates—can be found at the samljs-serverless-sample GitHub repository. We highly recommend you use the SAM templates in the GitHub repository to create the resources, opitonally you can manually create them. This is the second part of a two part series for […]

Contributors: Richard Threlkeld, Gene Ting, Stefano Buliani The full code for this blog, including SAM templates—can be found at the samljs-serverless-sample GitHub repository. We highly recommend you use the SAM templates in the GitHub repository to create the resources, opitonally you can manually create them. Want to enable SAML federated authentication? You can use the […]

Updated on April 26, 2018 to reflect changes in IAM create role process. Dougal Ballantyne, Principal Product Manager – AWS Batch Docker enables you to create highly customized images that are used to execute your jobs. These images allow you to easily share complex applications between teams and even organizations. However, sometimes you might just […]

Nicolas Malaval, AWS Professional Consultant In my previous blog post, I discussed the challenge of creating Amazon EBS snapshots when you cannot turn off the instance during backup because this might exclude any data that has been cached by any applications or the operating system. I showed how you can use EC2 Systems Manager to […]

Nicolas Malaval, AWS Professional Consultant If an EC2 instance is up and running, there may be applications working, like databases, with data in memory or pending I/O operations that cannot be retrieved from an Amazon EBS snapshot. If your application is unable to recover from such a state, you might lose vital data for your […]

Here are some upcoming events for Amazon ECS this month: Container World: Abby Fuller, senior AWS technical evangelist, will be speaking about Amazon ECS at Container World on Feb 21-23. Check out her schedule. Microservices Day @ AWS NY Loft: Microservices Day is on Feb 24 as part of the DevOps | AWS Loft Architecture […]

Ali Baghani, Software Development Engineer A common use case for AWS Step Functions is a task that requires human intervention (for example, an approval process). Step Functions makes it easy to coordinate the components of distributed applications as a series of steps in a visual workflow called a state machine. You can quickly build and […]

February 12, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. This post is written by Shiva Narayanaswamy, Solution Architect. Amazon Kinesis Firehose is a fully managed service […]

Ed Lima, Solutions Architect Want to create your own user directory that can scale to hundreds of millions of users? Amazon Cognito user pools are fully managed so that you don’t have to worry about the heavy lifting associated with building, securing, and scaling authentication to your apps. The AWS Mobile blog post Integrating Amazon […]

Thanks to my colleague Stas Vonholsky  for a great blog on managing secrets with Amazon ECS applications. —– As containerized applications and microservice-oriented architectures become more popular, managing secrets, such as a password to access an application database, becomes more challenging and critical. Some examples of the challenges include: Support for various access patterns across container […]