AWS Compute Blog

Category: Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

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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 […]

Solution architecture

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 […]

Quickly Restore Amazon EC2 Mac Instances using Replace Root Volume capability

This post is written by Sebastien Stormacq, Principal Developer Advocate. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) now supports replacing the root volume on a running EC2 Mac instance, enabling you to restore the root volume of an EC2 Mac instance to its initial launch state, to a specific snapshot, or to a new Amazon Machine […]

The AWS CDK stack workflow

Deploying an automated Amazon CloudWatch dashboard for AWS Outposts using AWS CDK

This post is written by Enrico Liguori, Networking Solutions Architect, Hybrid Cloud and Sumeeth Siriyur, Sr. Hybrid Cloud Solutions Architect. AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that brings the same AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to virtually any data center, colocation space, manufacturing floor, or on-premises facility where it might be needed. With Outposts, […]

Architecture of the automated creation of Root Volumes for Amazon EC2 Instances

Quick Restoration through Replacing the Root Volumes of Amazon EC2 instances

This blog post is written by Katja-Maja Krödel, IoT Specialist Solutions Architect, and Benjamin Meyer, Senior Solutions Architect, Game Tech. Customers use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances to develop, deploy, and test applications. To use those instances most effectively, customers have expressed the need to set back their instance to a previous state […]

adding encrypted storage to instance

Must-know best practices for Amazon EBS encryption

This blog post covers common encryption workflows on Amazon EBS. Examples of these workflows are: setting up permissions policies, creating encrypted EBS volumes, running Amazon EC2 instances, taking snapshots, and sharing your encrypted data using customer-managed CMK. Introduction Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) service provides high-performance block-level storage volumes for Amazon EC2 instances. Customers […]

How to import split disks into AWS

Contributed by Raphael Sack In an amusing coincidence, I was recently asked by two separate customers a nearly identical question: how to import split disks in the form of VMDK to AWS. This post covers one way to do this. There are quite a few names, official and unofficial, for split disks. These include: non-monolithic, […]

Amazon ECS and Docker volume drivers, part 1: Amazon EBS

→ Part 2: Amazon EFS   Post by: Jeremy Cowan, Ronnie Eichler, and Tiffany Jernigan Introduction Containers are emerging as the default compute primitive for building cloud-native applications.  They facilitate the adoption of continuous delivery, and help increase infrastructure use. However, deploying stateful application as containers has been challenging because containers have short life-spans, get […]

Improving application performance and reducing costs with Amazon EBS-Optimized Instance burst capability

Contributed by Sooraj Prasannan, Senior Product Manager, Amazon Elastic Block Store In November 2017, Amazon EC2 introduced C5 compute-intensive instances and M5 general-purpose instances. In the first half of 2018, we released EC2 C5d instances and M5d instances by adding high-speed, ultra-low latency local NVMe storage to the EC2 C5 and M5 instance families. EC2 […]