In my first blog post of this series, I introduced you to four strategies for disaster recovery (DR). My subsequent posts shared details on the backup and restore, pilot light, and warm standby active/passive strategies. In this post, you’ll learn how to implement an active/active strategy to run your workload Read more…
This series of blog posts uses the AWS Well-Architected Tool with the Serverless Lens to help customers build and operate applications using best practices. In each post, I address the serverless-specific questions identified by the Serverless Lens along with the recommended best practices. See the introduction post for a table of contents and explanation of the Read more…
Between 3:30 PM and 9:30 PM PDT, some Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Aurora PostgreSQL instances in the US-EAST-2 Region experienced increased latency and fault rates. This issue also caused issues with Elasticache, ELB, and API Gateway APIs. Existing Elasticache, ELB, and API Gateway instances were not impacted by this Read more…
WhizLabs had the honor of hosting a webinar with Brian H. Hough who is a Cloud and Blockchain Developer and AWS Community Builder. He has won the Global Hackathon five times and is currently the CTO of Airblock Technologies. With his extensive experience in the industry, he set out to Read more…
Containers have become the default way that I package my web applications. Although I love the speed, productivity, and consistency that containers provide, there is one aspect of the container development workflow that I do not like: the lengthy routine I go through when I deploy a container image for Read more…
By Narasimhan Balasubramanian, Chief Architect, AWS Practice – Cognizant Organizations hosting workloads on the cloud are more flexible and scalable, something made possible by different service-level agreement (SLA) options. However, these come with varying costs, and the onus is on organizations to choose the appropriate service and cost. For those Read more…
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports running clusters with high availability across multiple AWS Local Zones. AWS Local Zones are an extension of an AWS Region where you can run your latency-sensitive applications using AWS services in geographic proximity to end-users. Previously, Amazon ElastiCache for Redis only supported launching a Read more…
LeasePlan is one of the world’s leading car leasing companies, with 1.9 million vehicles in more than 30 countries. They manage the entire lifecycle of their fleet, from purchase and maintenance to the sale of returned lease cars. Sitecore is a leading content management system in the enterprise market. It Read more…
In the last blog, Preparing your Applications for Hypergrowth, we talked about hypergrowth and the technical challenges it presents to companies. As a reminder, we presented an example ecommerce company running a monolithic application on Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). This application connects with Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Read more…
Organizations across the globe are striving to provide a better service to internal and external stakeholders by enabling various divisions across the enterprise, like customer success, marketing, and finance, to make data-driven decisions. Data teams are the key enablers in this process, and usually consist of multiple roles, such as Read more…