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Instances might have to call certain API actions or access certain resources during an AWS Systems Manager Automation execution. What if you don’t want to apply the additional permissions to the instance’s existing instance profile? In this post, I show you how to provide temporary permissions to instances when executing an Automation within the document […]

Many customers use Amazon EMR with Apache Spark to build scalable big data pipelines. For large-scale production pipelines, a common use case is to read complex data from a variety of sources. This data must be transformed to make it useful to downstream applications, such as machine learning pipelines, analytics dashboards, and business reports. Such […]

Service Quotas enables you to view and manage your quotas for AWS services from a central location. You can currently view and manage over 100 services, such as Amazon VPC, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon RDS. Recently, we made it easier to manage quotas for Amazon EC2 with vCPU-based On-Demand Instance limits, which reduce the number […]

When applications and their development teams grow or evolve around service-specific independent teams, coordination and visibility among projects, deployments and operational events become a critical issue. AWS customers use multiple AWS accounts for many different reasons, adding guardrails around resources and increasing the need for collaboration between different AWS account owners and teams. Previously, these […]

IT administrators and DevOps engineers often perform routine operations to manage their cloud infrastructure and modern cloud workloads. Such tasks are considered as Day-2 tasks as they generate routine outcomes for the organization. Customers often use Python scripts to perform such tasks. Creating and managing the required computing environment for Python scripts, along with ongoing […]

Creating a resilient configuration management system comes with a variety of challenges. The goal of this post is to solve an important component of this: failing over to a standby AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate server when a primary server is unavailable. With the procedure described in this post, if the main OpsWorks for Chef […]

SulAmérica Seguros is Brazil’s largest independent insurer. The company offers one-stop shopping with a diversified business offering (healthcare; auto insurance; life insurance; pension plans; savings bonds; and asset management). Founded in 1895, SulAmérica is Brazil’s: Third largest insurer in the healthcare and dental market Fifth largest in the auto insurance market Ninth largest in the […]

Customers across industries and verticals consider cost management as one of their top priorities. Limited visibility into a volume’s lifecycle can result in costs for unutilized resources. AWS builds cost-management products to access, organize, understand, control, and optimize costs on AWS. Unused and overlooked Amazon EBS volumes contribute to AWS costs. The lifecycle of EBS […]

The time has never been better to operate a thriving business effectively on Amazon Web Services (AWS). With AWS Management and Governance services, you don’t have to choose between innovation and control – you can have both. Take your intrigue and come learn about what it takes to maintain and manage your environments effectively with […]

Bruno Halley Schaefer, software engineer, Nubank Hugo Carvalho, senior solutions architect, AWS Marcelo Nunes, senior technical account manager, AWS Enterprise Support Team   Nubank, a Brazilian company that is one of the world’s largest independent digital banks, is innovatively transforming Latin America’s financial landscape by providing transparent, simple, and efficient services. The company fights complexity […]