Category: Compute

In this post, AWS and Ziff Davis collaborated to tackle server management challenges by implementing an automated solution using EC2 Image Builder and AWS Systems Manager. The solution addressed issues of inconsistent configurations, undocumented processes, and manual patching, resulting in improved efficiency, consistency, and disaster recovery capabilities for Ziff Davis’s virtual phone number services.

In this post, we demonstrate how to optimize message delivery to third-party services using AWS Lambda and AWS Step Functions by implementing adaptive scaling strategies based on throttling patterns. We describe how YOOX, a leading online fashion retailer, improved their product update delivery system by using AWS Serverless services to achieve a 95% success rate within 10 minutes of job start while maintaining efficient message processing.

As organizations increasingly adopt Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to manage their containerized applications, implementing robust security measures and maintaining compliance become critical. The scalable and flexible nature of Amazon EKS has made it a popular choice for businesses seeking to streamline their application deployment and management processes. However, with this adoption comes the […]

Learn about Turbot’s cloud scripting engine Flowpipe along with practical examples for automating cloud operations on AWS.

Learn how to refresh AWS Secret Manager secrets in long-running Amazon ECS tasks through automation using a Lambda function and a CloudFormation resource.

Learn how to implement Amazon EKS monitoring and alerting using a custom solution that automates EKS observability capabilities for dynamic performance metrics.

Learn about best practices and components that define a great blueprint while exploring a fully working, serverless blueprint.

Learn how to use AWS CloudFormation StackSets to automate and simplify data protection without duplicating existing backups on Amazon EBS, a high-performance block-storage service designed for Amazon EC2.

Learn how to use Amazon EKS Blueprints for CDK to simplify integration of common tooling and provisioning of complete, opinionated EKS clusters that meet specific application requirements. This solution is designed to replace the deprecated Amazon EKS Quick Start.

One way to alleviate the pain of drift in your Amazon Web Services (AWS) workloads is to use a GitOps workflow to automate Amazon Machine Image (AMI) builds with AWS CodePipeline. In this post, we show you how to deploy a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline, managed by CodePipeline, to build AMIs.