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New: Zone Groups for Availability Zones in AWS Regions
This blog post is written by Pranav Chachra, Principal Product Manager, AWS. In 2019, AWS introduced Zone Groups for AWS Local Zones. Today, we’re announcing that we are working on extending the Zone Group construct to Availability Zones (AZs). Zone Groups were launched to help users of AWS Local Zones identify related groups of Local […]
AWS Lambda introduces recursive loop detection APIs
This post is written by James Ngai, Senior Product Manager, AWS Lambda, and Aneel Murari, Senior Specialist SA, Serverless. Today, AWS Lambda is announcing new recursive loop detection APIs that allow you to set recursive loop detection configuration on individual Lambda functions. This allows you to turn off recursive loop detection on functions that intentionally use […]
Using Amazon APerf to go from 50% below to 36% above performance target
This post is written by Tyler Jones, Senior Solutions Architect – Graviton, AWS. Performance tuning the Renaissance Finagle-http benchmark Sometimes software doesn’t perform the way it’s expected to across different systems. This can be due to a configuration error, code bug, or differences in hardware performance. Amazon APerf is a powerful tool designed to help […]
Migrating your on-premises workloads to AWS Outposts rack
This post is written by Craig Warburton, Senior Solutions Architect, Hybrid. Sedji Gaouaou, Senior Solutions Architect, Hybrid. Brian Daugherty, Principal Solutions Architect, Hybrid. Migrating workloads to AWS Outposts rack offers you the opportunity to gain the benefits of cloud computing while keeping your data and applications on premises. For organizations with strict data residency requirements, […]
Architecting for Disaster Recovery on AWS Outposts Racks with AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
This blog post is written by Brianna Rosentrater, Hybrid Edge Specialist SA. AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Service (AWS DRS) now supports disaster recovery (DR) architectures that include on-premises Windows and Linux workloads running on AWS Outposts. AWS DRS minimizes downtime and data loss with fast, reliable recovery of on-premises and cloud-based applications using affordable storage, […]
Introducing the .NET 8 runtime for AWS Lambda
This post is written by Beau Gosse, Senior Software Engineer and Paras Jain, Senior Technical Account Manager. AWS Lambda now supports .NET 8 as both a managed runtime and container base image. With this release, Lambda developers can benefit from .NET 8 features including API enhancements, improved Native Ahead of Time (Native AOT) support, and […]
Deploying an EMR cluster on AWS Outposts to process data from an on-premises database
This post is written by Eder de Mattos, Sr. Cloud Security Consultant, AWS and Fernando Galves, Outpost Solutions Architect, AWS. In this post, you will learn how to deploy an Amazon EMR cluster on AWS Outposts and use it to process data from an on-premises database. Many organizations have regulatory, contractual, or corporate policy requirements […]
Announcing IPv6 instance bundles and pricing update on Amazon Lightsail
Amazon Lightsail is the easiest way to get started on AWS, allowing you to get your application running on your own virtual server in a matter of minutes. Lightsail bundles all the resources you need like memory, vCPU, solid-state drive (SSD), and data transfer allowance into a predictable monthly price, so budgeting is easy and […]
Optimizing video encoding with FFmpeg using NVIDIA GPU-based Amazon EC2 instances
This post is written by Alejandro Gil, Solutions Architect and Joseba Echevarría, Solutions Architect. Introduction The purpose of this blog post is to compare video encoding performance between CPUs and Nvidia GPUs to determine the price/performance ratio in different scenarios while highlighting where it would be best to use a GPU. Video encoding plays a […]
Hibernating EC2 Instances in Response to a CloudWatch Alarm
This blog post is written by Jose Guay, Technical Account Manger, Enterprise Support. A typical option to reduce costs associated with running Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances is to stop them when they are idle. However, there are scenarios where stopping an idle instance is not practical. For example, instances with development environments […]