Many customers today want to migrate their servers to AWS as quickly as possible. This is often due to data center lease rapidly approach the termination/ renewal stages, or a first step in a large technology transformation program. This is not an easy activity, especially when you may have hundreds, Read more…
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics allows you to monitor application endpoints more easily. It runs tests on your endpoints every minute, and alerts you if your application endpoints don’t behave as expected. These tests can be customized to check for availability, latency, transactions, broken or dead links, page load errors, load latencies Read more…
Today, we are launching EMR on EKS support for Pod Templates to make it simple to run Spark jobs on shared EKS clusters. A Pod is a group of one or more containers, with shared storage and network resources, and a specification for how to run the containers. Pod Templates Read more…
Unstructured data belonging to the enterprise continues to grow, making it a challenge for customers and employees to get the information they need. Amazon Kendra is a highly accurate intelligent search service powered by machine learning (ML). It helps you easily find the content you’re looking for, even when it’s Read more…
Certificates are vital to maintaining trust and providing encryption to internal or external facing infrastructure and applications. AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) provides certificate services to any workload that requires them. Although ACM provides managed renewals that automatically renew certificates in most cases, there are exceptions, such as imported certs, where Read more…
By Aaron Lieberman, Cloud Practice Manager and Architect – Big Compass It’s easy to get excited about serverless because of its many benefits. It’s also easy to understand why technology like AWS Lambda is the logical next step in microservices architecture and use. It makes sense to use on-demand serverless Read more…
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is defined as a virtual computing environment. It allows people to use their web service interfaces for launching several instances with diverse operating systems. Along with that, it also allows the users to implement network access control or permissions. Apart from these perks, Amazon EC2 has a Read more…
Load balancers are a crucial component of cloud computing, and it is difficult to find the right one. Look at the comparison of Amazon Elastic Load Balancer vs Azure Load Balancer here! Load balancing is quite an important aspect of any cloud environment with a prominent contribution to ensuring the Read more…
AWS provides a flexible and secure environment where you can experiment, innovate, and scale more quickly. As you build and deploy your workloads, you need mechanisms to isolate your resources (for example, a resource container). You can use multiple AWS accounts for this purpose. An AWS account provides natural security, Read more…
This post is courtesy of Dario La Porta, Senior Consultant, HPC. AWS Batch enables developers, scientists, and engineers to run hundreds of thousands of HPC jobs in AWS. By managing the provisioning of computing resources, this allows you to focus on your core business. Shared memory support is a new feature Read more…