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Author: Sébastien Stormacq
Seb has been writing code since he first touched a Commodore 64 in the mid-eighties. He inspires builders to unlock the value of the AWS cloud, using his secret blend of passion, enthusiasm, customer advocacy, curiosity and creativity. His interests are software architecture, developer tools and mobile computing. If you want to sell him something, be sure it has an API. Follow him on Twitter @sebsto.
New for Identity Federation – Use Employee Attributes for Access Control in AWS
When you manage access to resources on AWS or many other systems, you most probably use Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). When you use RBAC, you define access permissions to resources, group these permissions in policies, assign policies to roles, assign roles to entities such as a person, a group of persons, a server, an application, […]
New – Convert Your Single-Region HAQM DynamoDB Tables to Global Tables
[This post has been updated on March 17th 2020. You can now update update existing global tables to the new replication model] Hundreds of thousands of AWS customers are using HAQM DynamoDB. In 2017, we launched DynamoDB global tables, a fully managed solution to deploy multi-region, multi-master DynamoDB tables without having to build and maintain […]
New – Application Load Balancer Simplifies Deployment with Weighted Target Groups
One of the benefits of cloud computing is the possibility to create infrastructure programmatically and to tear it down when it is no longer needed. This allows to radically change the way developers deploy their applications. When developers used to deploy applications on premises, they had to reuse existing infrastructure for new versions of their […]
HAQM Connect Introduces Web & Mobile Chat for a True Omnichannel Contact Center Experience
When we started HAQM in 1995, it was with the mission to be the earth’s most customer-centric company. It obviously requires many talented individuals and technologies to deliver on that vision, including contact centers. As HAQM’s retail business scaled, we first shopped for third-party contact center solutions, but we could not find one that fit […]
Improve Your App Testing With Amplify Console’s Pull Request Previews and Cypress Testing
Amplify Console allows developers to easly configure a Git-based workflow for continuous deployment and hosting of fullstack serverless web apps. Fullstack serverless apps comprise of backend resources such as GraphQL APIs, Data and File Storage, Authentication, or Analytics, integrated with a frontend framework such as React, Gatsby, or Angular. You can read more about the […]
Learn From Your VPC Flow Logs With Additional Meta-Data
Flow Logs for HAQM Virtual Private Cloud (HAQM VPC) enables you to capture information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in your VPC. Flow Logs data can be published to HAQM CloudWatch Logs or HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3). Since we launched VPC Flow Logs in 2015, you have been […]
New – Port Forwarding Using AWS System Manager Session Manager
I increasingly see customers adopting the immutable infrastructure architecture pattern: they rebuild and redeploy an entire infrastructure for each update. They very rarely connect to servers over SSH or RDP to update configuration or to deploy software updates. However, when migrating existing applications to the cloud, it is common to connect to your HAQM Elastic […]
New – Trigger a Kernel Panic to Diagnose Unresponsive EC2 Instances
When I was working on systems deployed in on-premises data centers, it sometimes happened I had to debug an unresponsive server. It usually involved asking someone to physically press a non-maskable interrupt (NMI) button on the frozen server or to send a signal to a command controller over a serial interface (yes, serial, such as […]