Category: Technical How-to

Multi-modal autoscaling with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling combines infrastructure metrics like CPU with application-level signals, so a group scales on the demand its users create. In this post, we show you how to implement it, with code samples and results from a controlled test.

AWS Local Zones and AWS Outposts help you keep regulated workloads within specific geographic boundaries. This post presents a framework of technologies, including the AWS Nitro System, AWS Organizations SCPs with AWS Control Tower, and Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring, to help you build auditable, secure architectures for data residency.

Build highly available architectures that span two AWS Outposts racks, or an Outpost rack and an AWS Local Zone, without single points of failure. This post covers three disaster recovery approaches: DNS-based failover, active/active load balancing, and hybrid database replication, with the RTO/RPO trade-offs of each.

Orchestrating specialized Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents with AWS Step Functions gives you the reasoning power of generative AI with the guardrails of deterministic validation. Agents propose options, and deterministic code validates them before any action is taken, demonstrated here with an airline rebooking workflow.

Learn how to use Amazon EventBridge Scheduler to deliver email campaigns at per-recipient optimal send times. This post shows how to create one schedule per recipient with zero idle compute cost, scale schedule creation with AWS Step Functions Distributed Map, and deliver through Amazon SES.

Feature toggles allow you to change application behavior in real time without deploying new code. Learn how to implement dynamic feature flags with AWS AppConfig on AWS Lambda for safe deployments, gradual rollouts, and instant rollback.

Learn observability best practices for AWS Lambda durable functions, including CloudWatch metrics, custom alarms, structured logging, and X-Ray tracing for debugging callback timeouts end-to-end.

Learn how to collect CPU and memory metrics from AWS Lambda MicroVMs using the CloudWatch Agent. Configure telegraf and OTel to monitor and right-size your workloads.

AWS Outposts brings AWS infrastructure into your data center with low latency and data locality. But an Outposts rack has fixed compute. Learn how to build a Burst to Region pattern that overflows workloads to Amazon EC2 in the parent Region when local capacity is exhausted.

The primary storage solutions for EC2 Windows instances, Amazon EC2 Instance Store and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) , now provide detailed performance statistics for real-time monitoring. Real-time monitoring enables you to gain visibility into key performance metrics, such as latency, throughput, and IOPS, allowing you to detect and address potential bottlenecks or issues […]