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Category: Technical How-to

Streamlining trace sampling behavior for AWS Lambda functions with AWS X-Ray

This post explores the importance of distributed tracing for operating serverless applications and announces an important update to tracing behavior for AWS Lambda, which streamlines how trace context is handled in PassThrough mode. This blog post will demonstrate how this change gives you better control over how your Lambda functions handle tracing with AWS X-Ray through practical examples. Whether you’re building new applications or operating existing ones, this update helps you achieve more predictable and efficient tracing across your serverless applications built using Lambda.

Diagram showing the three migration phases of assess, mobilize, and migrate and modernize

Migrating your on-premises workloads to AWS Outposts rack

This post is written by Craig Warburton, Senior Solutions Architect, Hybrid. Sedji Gaouaou, Senior Solutions Architect, Hybrid. Brian Daugherty, Principal Solutions Architect, Hybrid. Migrating workloads to AWS Outposts rack offers you the opportunity to gain the benefits of cloud computing while keeping your data and applications on premises. For organizations with strict data residency requirements, […]

DR from on-premises to Outposts

Architecting for Disaster Recovery on AWS Outposts Racks with AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

This blog post is written by Brianna Rosentrater, Hybrid Edge Specialist SA. AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Service (AWS DRS) now supports disaster recovery (DR) architectures that include on-premises Windows and Linux workloads running on AWS Outposts. AWS DRS minimizes downtime and data loss with fast, reliable recovery of on-premises and cloud-based applications using affordable storage, […]

NVIDIA NVDEC/NVENC architecture. Source http://developer.nvidia.com/video-codec-sdk

Optimizing video encoding with FFmpeg using NVIDIA GPU-based HAQM EC2 instances

This post is written by Alejandro Gil, Solutions Architect and Joseba Echevarría, Solutions Architect.  Introduction The purpose of this blog post is to compare video encoding performance between CPUs and Nvidia GPUs to determine the price/performance ratio in different scenarios while highlighting where it would be best to use a GPU. Video encoding plays a […]

A/B Configuration: Mix CPU architecture with ALB ingress connected to two separate CPU services

Mixing AWS Graviton with x86 CPUs to optimize cost and resiliency using HAQM EKS

This post is written by Yahav Biran, Principal SA, and Yuval Dovrat, Israel Head Compute SA. This post shows you how to integrate AWS Graviton-based HAQM EC2 instances into an existing HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS) environment running on x86-based HAQM EC2 instances. Customers use mixed-CPU architectures to enable their application to utilize a wide selection […]

. HAQM RDS replication to Local Zones with AWS DMS

Maintaining a local copy of your data in AWS Local Zones

This post is written by Leonardo Solano, Senior Hybrid Cloud SA and Obed Gutierrez, Solutions Architect, Enterprise. This post covers data replication strategies to back up your data into AWS Local Zones. These strategies include database replication, file based and object storage replication, and partner solutions for HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2). Customers running […]

High level HA architecture for Software VPN

Enabling highly available connectivity from on premises to AWS Local Zones

This post is written by Leonardo Solano, Senior Hybrid Cloud SA and Robert Belson SA Developer Advocate. Planning your network topology is a foundational requirement of the reliability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework. REL02-BP02 defines how to provide redundant connectivity between private networks in the cloud and on-premises environments using AWS Direct Connect for […]

S3 on Outposts connectivity options

Training machine learning models on premises for data residency with AWS Outposts rack

This post is written by Sumit Menaria, Senior Hybrid Solutions Architect, and Boris Alexandrov, Senior Product Manager-Tech.  In this post, you will learn how to train machine learning (ML) models on premises using AWS Outposts rack and datasets stored locally in HAQM S3 on Outposts. With the rise in data sovereignty and privacy regulations, organizations […]

Create, Use, and Troubleshoot Launch Scripts on HAQM Lightsail

This blog post is written by Brian Graf, Senior Developer Advocate, HAQM Lightsail and Sophia Parafina, Senior Developer Advocate.  HAQM Lightsail is a virtual private server (VPS) for deploying both operating systems (OS) and pre-packaged applications, such as WordPress, Plesk, cPanel, PrestaShop, and more. When deploying these instances, you can run launch scripts with additional […]

The AWS CDK stack workflow

Deploying an automated HAQM CloudWatch dashboard for AWS Outposts using AWS CDK

This post is written by Enrico Liguori, Networking Solutions Architect, Hybrid Cloud and Sumeeth Siriyur, Sr. Hybrid Cloud Solutions Architect. AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that brings the same AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to virtually any data center, colocation space, manufacturing floor, or on-premises facility where it might be needed. With Outposts, […]