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Author: Chris Munns
Chris Munns is the Tech Lead & Advisor for the Startup Solution Architecture organization at HAQM Web Services. Chris works with peers at AWS on how to better support AWS’s startup customers and directly engages with helping hot startups overcome complex technical challenges. At AWS for over 10 years, Chris has previously led Developer Advocacy for AWS Serverless technologies, was the global Business Development Manager for DevOps technologies, and was a Solutions Architect in the early days of the AWS field. Before AWS, Chris held senior operations engineering posts at Etsy, Meetup, and other NYC based startups. Chris has a Bachelor of Science in Applied Networking and System Administration from the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Automating your lift-and-shift migration at no cost with CloudEndure Migration
This post is courtesy of Gonen Stein, Head of Product Strategy, CloudEndure Acquired by AWS in January 2019, CloudEndure offers a highly automated migration tool to simplify and expedite rehost (lift-and-shift) migrations. AWS recently announced that CloudEndure Migration is now available to all customers and partners at no charge. Each free CloudEndure Migration license provides 90 […]
Announcing improved VPC networking for AWS Lambda functions
September 8, 2021: HAQM Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to HAQM OpenSearch Service. See details. Update – August 5, 2020: We have fully rolled out the changes to the following additional Regions to those mentioned below. These improvements are now available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and the AWS China (Ningxia) […]
New: Using HAQM EC2 Instance Connect for SSH access to your EC2 Instances
This post is courtesy of Saloni Sonpal – Senior Product Manager – HAQM EC2 Today, AWS is introducing HAQM EC2 Instance Connect, a new way to control SSH access to your EC2 instances using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). About HAQM EC2 Instance Connect While infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Chef and Puppet […]
Updated timeframe for the upcoming AWS Lambda and AWS Lambda@Edge execution environment update
On May 14th we announced an upcoming update to the AWS Lambda and AWS Lambda@Edge execution environments. In that announcement we shared that we are updating the execution environment to a more recent version of HAQM Linux. This newer execution environment brings updates that offer improvements in capabilities, performance, security, and updated packages that your […]
Upcoming updates to the AWS Lambda and AWS Lambda@Edge execution environment
NOTE: On May 23 we announced an update to the timeframe seen below. AWS Lambda was first announced at AWS re:Invent 2014. HAQM CTO Werner Vogels highlighted the aspect of needing to run no servers, no instances, nothing, you just write your code. In 2016, we announced the launch of Lambda@Edge, which lets you run […]
Creating an AWS Batch environment for mixed CPU and GPU genomics workflows
This post is courtesy of Lee Pang – AWS Technical Business Development I recently worked with a customer who needed to process a bunch of raw sequence files (FastQs) into Hi-C format (*.hic), which is used for the structural analysis of DNA/chromatin loops and sequence accessibility. The tooling they were interested in using was the Juicer […]
From Poll to Push: Transform APIs using HAQM API Gateway REST APIs and WebSockets
This post is courtesy of Adam Westrich – AWS Principal Solutions Architect and Ronan Prenty – Cloud Support Engineer Want to deploy a web application and give a large number of users controlled access to data analytics? Or maybe you have a retail site that is fulfilling purchase orders, or an app that enables users to […]
Deploying a personalized API Gateway serverless developer portal
This post is courtesy of Drew Dresser, Application Architect – AWS Professional Services HAQM API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. Customers of these APIs often want a website to learn and discover APIs that are available to […]
ICYMI: Serverless Q4 2018
This post is courtesy of Eric Johnson, Senior Developer Advocate – AWS Serverless Welcome to the fourth edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. Every quarter, we share all of the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts, webinars, Twitch live streams, and other interesting things that you […]
Announcing WebSocket APIs in HAQM API Gateway
This post is courtesy of Diego Magalhaes, AWS Senior Solutions Architect – World Wide Public Sector-Canada & JT Thompson, AWS Principal Software Development Engineer – HAQM API Gateway Starting today, you can build bidirectional communication applications using WebSocket APIs in HAQM API Gateway without having to provision and manage any servers. HTTP-based APIs use a request/response […]