Tag: Lambda

Storing user names and passwords directly in applications is not a best practice. Saving credentials as plaintext should never occur in a secure application. As a solution, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies can assign permissions that determine who is allowed to manage Amazon Aurora resources. For example, you can use IAM to determine […]

With a microservices architecture, distributed teams often need a central operational excellence team to make sure that the rest of the organization is following operational best practices. For example, you might want to know if you configured lifecycle policy, versioning, and access policies properly for objects in an Amazon S3 bucket. Proper configurations ensure that […]

Jeff Levine is a solutions architect for Amazon Web Services. The AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) supports Amazon S3 as a migration target. The services enable you to extract information from any database supported by DMS and write it to Amazon S3 in a format that can be used by almost any application. You can extract the entire […]

Adam Wagner is a solutions architect at Amazon Web Services. Earlier this year, Amazon DynamoDB released Time to Live (TTL) functionality, which automatically deletes expired items from your tables, at no additional cost. TTL eliminates the complexity and cost of scanning tables and deleting items that you don’t want to retain, saving you money on […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Pubali Sen and Shankar Ramachandran are solutions architects at Amazon Web Services. In 2016, AWS introduced the EKK stack (Amazon Elasticsearch Service, Amazon Kinesis, and Kibana, an open source plugin from Elastic) as an alternative to ELK (Amazon Elasticsearch Service, the […]

Aravind Kodandaramaiah is a partner solutions architect with the AWS Partner Program Introduction We find that customers running AWS workloads often use both Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Aurora. Amazon DynamoDB is a fast and flexible NoSQL database service for all applications that need consistent, single-digit millisecond latency at any scale. Its flexible data model and reliable performance […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Amit Sharma (@amitksh44) is a solutions architect at Amazon Web Services. You can use Amazon S3 to implement a data lake architecture as the single source of truth for all your data. Taking this approach not only allows you to […]