AWS Compute Blog
Building a Graylog server to run on an Amazon Lightsail instance
This post is part of a collection by the Amazon Lightsail team to highlight how builders are using Lightsail to get started on AWS building interesting solutions. If you’re interested in contributing a post on how you’re using Lightsail reach out to us at lightsail-blog-authors@amazon.com! This post is guest contributed by Amazon Lightsail customer, Richard […]
Replacing web server functionality with serverless services
I show how traditional web-server applications compare with their serverless counterparts. I show how the infrastructure is managed for you in serverless, and how code for serverless developers in primarily focused on business logic.
Using cost allocation tags with AWS ParallelCluster
This post is courtesy of Dario La Porta, Senior Consultant, HPC. With high performance computing (HPC) workloads running in the AWS Cloud, customers can scale workloads easily and select from a variety of instance types. With this additional flexibility, elasticity, and scale, it’s important to track your costs and resource utilization for specific projects or […]
Improving website performance with Lightsail Content Delivery Network
This post was written by Mike Coleman, Senior Developer Advocate Amazon Lightsail recently announced the release of Lightsail Content Delivery Network (CDN). With this launch customers can now distribute their content more securely to users across the globe. Content is served from the edge location closest to the end user which improves performance while reducing […]
Building deep learning inference with AWS Lambda and Amazon EFS
This post shows how you can use EFS for Lambda to deploy large DL libraries and models into a function for synchronous invocations.
The AWS Serverless Application Model CLI is now generally available
The AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) is an open-source framework for building serverless applications. Built on AWS CloudFormation, AWS SAM provides shorthand syntax to declare serverless resources. During deployment, AWS SAM transforms the serverless resources into CloudFormation syntax, enabling you to build serverless applications faster. As a companion to AWS SAM, the AWS SAM […]
Modeling business logic flows in serverless applications
Serverless applications can help you develop more agile applications that can scale automatically. By using serverless services in your architecture, this reduces the amount of boilerplate code. It also helps offload complex tasks to specialized services. As a result, a well-designed serverless application can be modified easily to deliver new feature requests, while maintaining high […]
ICYMI: Serverless Q2 2020
Welcome to the 10th edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. Every quarter, we share all of the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts, webinars, Twitch live streams, and other interesting things that you might have missed! In case you missed our last ICYMI, checkout what happened […]
Must-know best practices for Amazon EBS encryption
This blog post covers common encryption workflows on Amazon EBS. Examples of these workflows are: setting up permissions policies, creating encrypted EBS volumes, running Amazon EC2 instances, taking snapshots, and sharing your encrypted data using customer-managed CMK. Introduction Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) service provides high-performance block-level storage volumes for Amazon EC2 instances. Customers […]
Improving performance of PHP for Arm64 and impact on AWS Graviton2 based EC2 instances
This post is contributed by Sebastian Pop, Senior Software Engineer, Amazon Web Services. AWS recently launched the Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances powered by the AWS Graviton2 processors. Compared to similar-sized M5 instances, Graviton2 based instances provide up to 40% better price performance on several open-source application stacks. This blog discusses how AWS […]