This post is written by Joerg Woehrle, AWS Solutions Architect On November 30, 2020 AWS announced the availability of Amazon EC2 Mac instances. EC2 Mac instances are powered by the AWS Nitro System and built on Apple Mac mini computers. This blog post focuses on the specific best practices of Read more…
This post is written by Scott Malkie, Specialist Solutions Architect, EC2 At re:Invent 2020, we announced Amazon EC2 Mac instances, which enable you to run on-demand macOS workloads in the AWS Cloud for the first time. Apple developers can now benefit from the scalability, elasticity, reliability, and security of the Read more…
By Paolo Latella, Cloud Practice Manager and APN Ambassador at Claranet Italia Cloud infrastructure provides more agility and responsiveness than traditional IT environments. This requires organizations to think differently about how they design, build, and manage applications. Cloud resources are disposable, and with a pay-per-use model it requires a strong 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 contributed by Amr Ragab, Senior Solutions Architect, Amazon EC2 Introduction AWS is excited to announce that the new Amazon EC2 P4d instances are now generally available. This instance type brings additional benefits with 2.5x higher deep learning performance; adding to the accelerated instances portfolio, new features, and Read more…
Apache Spark is a unified analytics engine for large scale, distributed data processing. Typically, businesses with Spark-based workloads on AWS use their own stack built on top of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), or Amazon EMR to run and scale Apache Spark, Hive, Presto, and other big data frameworks. Read more…
This post discusses the benefits of and how to build an AWS CI/CD pipeline in AWS CodePipeline for multi-region deployment. The CI/CD pipeline triggers on application code changes pushed to your AWS CodeCommit repository. This automatically feeds into AWS CodeBuild for static and security analysis of the CloudFormation template. Another Read more…
This is part two of a two part series on Amazon Inspector. This article is about implementing Amazon Inspector in automated AMI pipelines. The first article is an Introduction to Amazon Inspector. Automated security scanning is an essential part of DevSecOps, however setting the scanning up can be cumbersome. This Read more…
This is part one of a two part series on Amazon Inspector. This article goes over some of the features of Amazon Inspector and covers some of the pros and cons of the service. The second article within this series is a quick start on implementing Amazon Inspector in automated Read more…
Guest post by Yared Ayalew, Product Owner & Acacio Santos, Senior System Engineer, Backbase Backbase is a leader in digital first, omni-channel banking platform and creator of the Backbase Digital-First Banking Platform, a state-of-the-art digital banking software solution that unifies data and functionality from traditional core systems and new fintech players Read more…