AWS Compute Blog

This post is courtesy of Rodney Bozo, Senior Solutions Architect – Microsoft Technologies – AWS Windows has been a first-class citizen at AWS for over a decade. More enterprises run Windows workloads today on AWS than any other cloud—according to IDC, it’s over 57%, 2X than the next provider. Over this period, we’ve worked with […]

This post is courtesy of Akash Jain, Partner Solutions Architect – AWS The new multi-value parameter support feature for Amazon API Gateway allows you to pass multiple values for the same key in the header and query string as part of your API request. It also allows you to pass multi-value headers in the API response to implement […]

This post is courtesy of Akash Jain, Partner Solutions Architect – AWS APIs are driving modern architectures. Many customers are moving their traditional architecture to service-oriented or microservices-based architectures. As part of this transition, you may face a few complex situations. For example, a backend API returns an HTTP status code of 2XX that must […]

Post by Vikrama Adethyaa, Solution Architect and Tiffany Jernigan, Developer Advocate Update – July 26, 2021 – While this post remains accurate, we want to make it clear that we did announce built in image scanning in Amazon ECR in October 2019. The built in integration provides a simpler solution than what is in this post. […]

Contributed by Ruchita Arora, Sr. Product Manager, Allen Farris, Software Dev Engineer, and Itay Maoz, Sr. Software Engineering Manager Earlier this year, Amazon EC2 introduced two exciting new instance families, M5 and R5. These instances are based on the new AWS Nitro system, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor that aims to deliver […]

In light of Oracle’s recent announcement indicating an end to free long-term support for OpenJDK after January 2019, we re-affirm that the OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK 11 Java runtimes in Amazon Linux 2 will continue to receive free long-term support from Amazon until at least June 30, 2023. We are collaborating and contributing in the […]

Contributed by Amr Ragab, HPC Application Consultant, AWS Professional Services In part 1 of this series, you deployed the base components to create the HPC cluster. This unique deployment stands up the SLURM headnode. For every job submitted to the queue, the headnode provisions the needed compute resources to run the job, based on job […]

Welcome to the third 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! If you didn’t see them, catch our Q1 ICYMI and […]

Contributed by Raphael Sack In an amusing coincidence, I was recently asked by two separate customers a nearly identical question: how to import split disks in the form of VMDK to AWS. This post covers one way to do this. There are quite a few names, official and unofficial, for split disks. These include: non-monolithic, […]

Contributed by Vinay Nadig, Associate Solutions Architect, AWS. With more and more organizations moving toward Agile development, it’s not uncommon to deploy code to production multiple times a day. With the increased speed of deployments, it’s imperative to have a mechanism in place where you can detect errors and roll back problematic deployments early. In […]