AWS Architecture Blog

Category: End User Computing

Figure 1. Redundant direct connection from Hawaii to the US mainland

Building Resilient and High Performing Cloud-based Applications in Hawaii

Hawaii is building a digital economy for a sustainable future. Many local businesses are already embarking on their journey to the cloud to meet their customers’ growing demand for digital services. To access HAQM Web Services (AWS) on the US mainland, customers’ data must traverse through submarine fiber-optic cable networks approximately 2,800 miles across the […]

2020

Top 15 Architecture Blog Posts of 2020

The goal of the AWS Architecture Blog is to highlight best practices and provide architectural guidance. We publish thought leadership pieces that encourage readers to discover other technical documentation, such as solutions and managed solutions, other AWS blogs, videos, reference architectures, whitepapers, and guides, Training & Certification, case studies, and the AWS Architecture Monthly Magazine. […]

Field Notes: Restricting HAQM WorkSpaces Users to Run HAQM Athena Queries

One of the use cases we hear from customers is that they want to provide very limited access to HAQM Workspaces users (for example contractors, consultants) in an AWS account. At the same time they want to allow them to query HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3) data in another account using HAQM Athena over a […]