AWS Open Source Blog

AWS DeepRacer is now open source and ready to hit the road with ROS 2

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become one of the most popular machine learning techniques for training robots in simulation. RL enables models to learn complex behaviors without labeled training data and allows the models to make short-term decisions while optimizing for longer-term goals. AWS DeepRacer offers an autonomous 1/18th scale race car driven by a reinforcement […]

Using Streamlit to build an interactive dashboard for data analysis on AWS

In this article, we’ll show how to stand up an Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) dashboard for business users using Amazon Web Services (AWS) with Streamlit. Streamlit is an open source framework for data scientists to efficiently create interactive web-based data applications in pure Python. In this tutorial, the EDA dashboard allows for quick end-to-end deployment […]

Using Amazon Managed Grafana to troubleshoot a serverless application

Amazon Managed Grafana, is a fully managed service that makes visualizing and analyzing operational data at scale easier. Many customers choose Amazon Managed Grafana because of an existing investment in Grafana, its deep integration with vendors they might already be using, consolidation of metrics across environments, and powerful visualizations for both in-cloud and on-premises workloads. […]

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AWS One Observability Demo Workshop: What’s new with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry 

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a variety of observability services and tools to gain visibility and insights about your workload’s health and performance. For example, Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray offer a variety of features to collect, ingest, and perform operations on traces, metrics, and log data generated from workloads. Purpose-built solutions, such as CloudWatch […]

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Deploying Python Flask microservices to AWS using open source tools

Data has become the language of business. Organizations leverage data to better understand and deliver value to their customers. As a result, there is a growing need in many organizations for flexible patterns that can be leveraged to develop new applications and functionality to interact with their data. APIs, or application program interfaces, are a […]

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TLS 1.0/1.1 changes in OpenJDK and Amazon Corretto

Starting on April 20, 2021, quarterly update releases of OpenJDK are disabling TLS1.0 and TLS1.1 availability by default in all versions of OpenJDK. Amazon Corretto will be keeping TLS1.0 and TLS1.1 available by default for a while longer. Feedback from customers and industry partners suggests that this deprecation has the potential to cause outages, so […]

FreeRTOS.org update for Q1 2021

In the first three months of 2021, the FreeRTOS.org blog published several posts, containing both deep technical content and FreeRTOS improvement updates. Check out the roundup of article summaries below for topics of interest to you. As always, we would love for you to participate in the FreeRTOS Forums and contribute through FreeRTOS on GitHub […]

Diagram of Prometheus 2.26 adds AWS Signature Version 4 support

Prometheus 2.26.0 adds AWS Signature Version 4 support

The latest release of Prometheus (v2.26.0), an open source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit, rolled out native AWS Signature Version 4 authentication support. With this new feature, the Prometheus server is able to directly make remote-write API calls to send metrics to the Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP) without having to rely on a […]

Enhancing Spinnaker deployment experience of AWS Lambda functions with the Lambda plugin

This post was written by Jason Coffman, Gaurav Dhamija, Vikrant Kahlir, Nima Kaviani, Brandon Leach, Shyam Maniyedath, and Shrirang Moghe. Spinnaker is an open source continuous delivery platform that allows for fast-paced, reliable, and repeatable deployment of software to the cloud. For many AWS customers, including Airbnb, Pinterest, Snap, Autodesk, and Salesforce, Spinnaker is a critical piece of technology that […]