This post is written by Andy Ward, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, and Yogi Barot, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect. Customers have been taking advantage of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Dedicated Hosts to enable them to use their eligible software licenses from vendors such as Microsoft and Oracle since the feature launched Read more…
In part 1 of this blog post, I explain how a GIF generation service can support a front-end application for video streaming. I compare the performance of a server-based and serverless approach and show how parallelization can significantly improve processing time. I introduce an example application and I walk through Read more…
This post was authored by AWS Solutions Architects Ray Zaman, David Desroches, and Ameer Hakme. In this blog series, you will discover how to build and manage your own Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS) on AWS. In this post you will learn how to deploy the popular open source parallel 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…
This post is written by Anitha Deenadayalan, Developer Specialist SA, DevAx (Developer Acceleration). This post shows how to use the saga design pattern to preserve data integrity in distributed transactions across multiple services. In a distributed transaction, multiple services can be called before a transaction is completed. When the services 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…
This post is written by Mark Sailes, Specialist Solutions Architect, Serverless and Richard Davison, Senior Partner Solutions Architect. The Operating Lambda: Performance optimization blog series covers important topics for developers, architects, and system administrators who are managing applications using AWS Lambda functions. This post explains how you can reduce the Read more…
Many video streaming services show GIF animations in the frontend when users fast forward and rewind throughout a video. This helps customers see a preview and makes the user interface more intuitive. Generating these GIF files is a compute-intensive operation that becomes more challenging to scale when there are many Read more…
This post is written by Pritam Pal, Sr EC2 Spot Specialist SA & Dan Kelly, Sr EC2 Spot GTM Specialist Customers are using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build CI/CD pipelines and follow DevOps best practices in order to deliver products rapidly and reliably. AWS services simplify infrastructure provisioning and Read more…
This post is written by Rafa Xu, Cloud Architect, Serverless and Joely Huang, Cloud Architect, Serverless. Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a fast, flexible, fully managed push messaging service in the cloud. SNS can send mobile push notifications directly to applications on mobile devices such as message alerts and badge Read more…