AWS Open Source Blog

Category: Customer Solutions

What is Trapheus?

This article is a guest post from Namita Devadas and Rohit Kumar, Senior Software Engineers at Intuit. Trapheus is an open source Python serverless utility for automated restoration of Relational Database Service (RDS) instances from snapshots into any development, staging, or production environments. It supports snapshot-based restoration for individual RDS instances (for example, Oracle, MySQL, […]

Accelerate infrastructure as code development with open source Former2

In this post, AWS Community Hero, Ian Mckay, highlights the capabilities of Former2, an open source project that enables you to generate infrastructure as code (IaC) templates from existing AWS resources in your account. This post covers how Mckay created Former2, how to use it, the challenges around it, and the future for Former2. When […]

How DNAnexus used the open source Former2 project to create infrastructure as code templates for their disaster recovery pipeline

This is a guest post by Varderes Barsegyan, a former DevOps engineer at DNAnexus. Founded in 2009, APN Partner DNAnexus is a cloud-based genomics company that has built a cloud platform and global network for scientific collaboration and accelerated discovery. The platform provides compute and storage capabilities, customizable bioinformatics pipelines, and supports customers with specialized […]

Managing hybrid storage in an increasingly agile time with OpenShift Container Storage on AWS

This article is a guest post from Mayur Shetty, a Senior Solution Architect within Red Hat’s Global Partners and Alliances organization. According to the 2019 CNCF Survey, 84% of customers surveyed have containers workloads in production, which is a dramatic increase from 18% in 2018. This increase is driven by a customer need to be […]