Tag: Advice from AWS Solution Architects

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra

Titan is a distributed graph database that now supports DynamoDB.

In part one, AWS Lambda and DynamoDB Streams were in preview mode. Since their recent launch, some portions of the API have changed. This post reflects the latest updated coding conventions of each.

Why does AWS have so many data storage options? Which one is right for me? These are commonly asked customer questions. In this three-part blog series, I will attempt to provide some clarity. In the first part, I discussed the basics of high availability and how redundancy is a common way of achieving it. I also briefly mentioned that bringing redundancy to the data tier introduces new challenges. In this second part of the blog series, I discuss some of those challenges and common tradeoffs that you need to take into consideration while overcoming them.

In the previous blog post of this two-part series, “Part 1 — Introduction to Blue/Green Deployment on AWS,” we covered the benefits of blue…

If you’ve ever been involved in a production system upgrade that went sideways, then you know that there are better things to be doing on a…

I will use a simple web application stack to discuss high availability, how it is calculated and how it can be practically achieved.

Let’s see scheduling, state management, and resource allocations in action by actually running a service in ECS.

Achieve great solutions by bringing together a collection of “small things” within the Internet of Things (IoT) domain.

To build great apps, startups typically require multiple environments, such as production, development, QA, and staging environments. But it can be challenging to track and manage resources over multiple environments, especially as a business grows over time.