Category: Technical How-to

Introduction The sidecar deployment pattern lets developers decouple monolithic applications into separate processes with high levels of isolation and encapsulation. To address cross-cutting concerns like logging, monitoring, and authorization, organizations can decouple these operations into sidecar containers shared across multiple microservices within a deployment. In order to perform operations like authorization, microservice deployments often depend […]

This blog is the first part of a two-part series that describes how to host a secure DICOM server on AWS. It is based on the Dicoogle open source software, which provides the functionality of a PACS (picture archiving and communication system). A PACS stores and indexes DICOM medical image files, and uses the DICOM […]

This post was contributed by David Boeke, Bob Tordella, Jon Udell, and Nathan Wallace. Steampipe is an open source tool under the AGPLv3 license for querying cloud APIs in a universal way and reasoning about the data in SQL. In our first post we explored the AWS plugin which maps the suite of AWS APIs […]

Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source general-purpose policy engine, licensed under the Apache License 2.0, that allows you to decouple policy decision-making from application code. OPA assists organizations in effectively implementing policy as code. It allows policy to be expressed through a high-level declarative language (Rego), and it also allows policy authoring to […]

Container image support for AWS Lambda lets developers package function code and dependencies using familiar patterns and tools. With this pattern, developers use standard tools like Docker to package their functions as container images and deploy them to Lambda. In this post, we demonstrate how to use open source tools and AWS continuous integration and […]

Overview Spinnaker enables developers to focus on writing code and deploying their applications without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure. The development team can focus on application development and leave ops provisioning to Spinnaker for automating reinforcement of business and regulatory requirements. Spinnaker, a cloud-based open source continuous delivery platform built originally by Netflix […]

NOTE: Since this blog post was written, much about Kubeflow has changed. While we are leaving it up for historical reference, more accurate information about Kubeflow on AWS can be found here. The Kubeflow project is dedicated to making deployments of machine learning (ML) workflows on Kubernetes simple, portable, and scalable. The project’s goal is […]

This post was written by Dzenan Softic and Sam Dengler. Many organizations rely on Apache Airflow, an open source project, to orchestrate their data pipelines. In 2020, Amazon Web Services (AWS) released Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA), which lets engineers focus on business solutions rather than on running and maintaining infrastructure for […]

Customers want better insight into understanding the behavior of their systems, but not all customers can afford to make significant code changes in their existing pipelines to add more observability. In this walkthrough, we explain how to get telemetry data from AWS Lambda Python functions, without having to change a line of code. Find the […]

This post was contributed by David Boeke, Bob Tordella, Jon Udell, and Nathan Wallace. Steampipe is an open source tool for querying cloud APIs in a universal way and reasoning about the data in SQL. To enable you to select * from cloud, the tool embeds Postgres, and it maps cloud APIs to database tables […]