Behind every successful open source project, you’ll find a real problem that needed to be solved. In this post, I will explore one such example through the backstory of the AWS Cloud Development Kit, or AWS CDK for short. A big part of this story involves the impact of the Read more…
When you run an application on multiple Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, you want to avoid differences between the instances because they can cause unpredictable behavior and make it hard to troubleshoot and solve issues. The best way to prevent differences is to replace your instances whenever you Read more…
This post is authored by Deepthi Chelupati, Senior Product Manager for Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, and Chad Schmutzer, Principal Developer Advocate for Amazon EC2 Customers have been using EC2 Spot Instances to save money and scale workloads to new levels for over a decade. Launched in late 2009, Spot Instances Read more…
In this post, AWS Community Hero, Ian Mckay, highlights the capabilities of Former2, an open source project that enables you to generate infrastructure as code (IaC) templates from existing AWS resources in your account. This post covers how Mckay created Former2, how to use it, the challenges around it, and Read more…
We have been continuously striving to support the learning aspirations of IT professionals worldwide. Over the years, we have been launching new courses and at the same time, we are improvising the content of our training courses, hands-on labs, and practice tests. Our pursuits’ primary objective in improving learning resources Read more…
In this post, I show how you can use AWS Organizations, AWS Config, and HashiCorp’s Terraform to deploy guardrails at scale. AWS Config provides configuration, compliance, and auditing features that are required for governing your resources and providing security posture assessment at scale. With its recent support for AWS Organizations, Read more…
The AWS Partner Network (APN) is the global partner program for Amazon Web Services (AWS). We enable AWS Partners to build, market, and sell their AWS offerings, and we help customers identify top AWS Partners that can deliver on core business objectives. There are tens of thousands of AWS Partners Read more…
AWS Lambda is announcing a preview of Lambda Extensions, a new way to easily integrate Lambda with your favorite monitoring, observability, security, and governance tools. In this post I explain how Lambda extensions work, how you can begin using them, and the extensions from AWS Lambda Ready Partners that are Read more…
By Hakan Ilter, Cloud and Big Data Consultant at Kloia By Prasad Rao, Partner Solutions Architect at AWS Many enterprise organizations have .NET Framework legacy applications they need modernize and convert to cloud-native so they can reap the cloud benefits of agility, scalability, and cost savings. One of the largest Read more…
Cloud computing adoption has been rapidly increasing with enterprises around the globe, opting for various migration patterns during their cloud journey. Taking monolithic legacy applications as-is and moving them to the cloud, is an approach also known as “lift-and-shift,” and is one of the main drivers for cloud migration. As Read more…