Introducing CloudWatch Resource Health to monitor your EC2 hosts

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedIntroducing CloudWatch Resource Health to monitor your EC2 hosts Today, AWS announced Amazon CloudWatch Resource Health, a fully managed solution that customers can use to automatically discover, manage, and visualize the health and performance of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) hosts across their applications. Resource Health provides a centralized view of your EC2…

Amazon Redshift ML Is Now Generally Available – Use SQL to Create Machine Learning Models and Make Predictions from Your Data

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAmazon Redshift ML Is Now Generally Available – Use SQL to Create Machine Learning Models and Make Predictions from Your Data With Amazon Redshift, you can use SQL to query and combine exabytes of structured and semi-structured data across your data warehouse, operational databases, and data lake. Now that AQUA (Advanced Query Accelerator) is…

Building Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for EC2 Mac instances with Packer

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedBuilding Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for EC2 Mac instances with Packer 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…

Announcing Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Studio: Interactively query data streams and develop stream processing applications powered by Apache Flink

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAnnouncing Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Studio: Interactively query data streams and develop stream processing applications powered by Apache Flink Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Studio is now available, enabling you to interactively query data streams in real time, and easily build and run stream processing applications using SQL, Python, and Scala. With a few clicks,…

Mistakes to Avoid When Implementing Serverless Architecture with AWS Lambda

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedMistakes to Avoid When Implementing Serverless Architecture with AWS Lambda There are many articles that show you how to use AWS Lambda, but these articles usually don’t cover what you shouldn’t do with the service. Because technologies emerge and become outdated quickly, solutions that may look like the right solution, otherwise known as anti-patterns,…

How to implement a hybrid PKI solution on AWS

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedHow to implement a hybrid PKI solution on AWS As customers migrate workloads into Amazon Web Services (AWS) they may be running a combination of on-premises and cloud infrastructure. When certificates are issued to this infrastructure, having a common root of trust to the certificate hierarchy allows for consistency and interoperability of the Public…