Category: Storage

Factories that produce a high volume of inventory must ensure that defective products are not shipped. This is often accomplished with human workers on the assembly line or through computer vision. You can build an application that uses a custom image classification model to detect and report back any defects in a product, then takes […]

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 […]

Contributed by Jeff Bartley, Storage Solutions Architect, AWS HAQM Elastic Block Store (HAQM EBS) enables you to back up volumes at any time using EBS snapshots. Volume backups can be triggered manually or they can be scheduled using HAQM Data Lifecycle Manager (HAQM DLM) or AWS Backup. Each backup creates a unique EBS snapshot. The […]

Contributed by Raphael Sack In an amusing coincidence, I was recently asked by two separate customers a nearly identical question: how to import split disks in the form of VMDK to AWS. This post covers one way to do this. There are quite a few names, official and unofficial, for split disks. These include: non-monolithic, […]

← Introduction and Part 1: HAQM EBS   Post by: Tiffany Jernigan and Jeremy Cowan Introduction This is the second post in a series showing how to use Docker volumes with HAQM ECS. If you are unfamiliar with Docker volumes or REX-Ray, or want to know how to use a volume plugin with ECS and […]

→ Part 2: HAQM EFS   Post by: Jeremy Cowan, Ronnie Eichler, and Tiffany Jernigan Introduction Containers are emerging as the default compute primitive for building cloud-native applications.  They facilitate the adoption of continuous delivery, and help increase infrastructure use. However, deploying stateful application as containers has been challenging because containers have short life-spans, get […]

Contributed by Sooraj Prasannan, Senior Product Manager, HAQM Elastic Block Store In November 2017, HAQM EC2 introduced C5 compute-intensive instances and M5 general-purpose instances. In the first half of 2018, we released EC2 C5d instances and M5d instances by adding high-speed, ultra-low latency local NVMe storage to the EC2 C5 and M5 instance families. EC2 […]

This blog was contributed by Rucha Nene, Sr. Product Manager for HAQM EBS AWS customers use tags to track ownership of resources, implement compliance protocols, control access to resources via IAM policies, and drive their cost accounting processes. Last year, we made tagging for HAQM EC2 instances and HAQM EBS volumes easier by adding the […]

This post contributed by Laura Thomson, Senior Product Manager for HAQM EC2. As you start planning for the new year, I want to give you a heads up that HAQM EC2 is migrating to longer format, 17-character resource IDs. Instances and volumes currently already receive this ID format. Beginning in July 2018, all newly created […]

Contributed by Otavio Ferreira, Manager, Software Development, AWS Messaging Like other developers around the world, you may be tackling increasingly complex business problems. A key success factor, in that case, is the ability to break down a large project scope into smaller, more manageable components. A service-oriented architecture guides you toward designing systems as a collection of […]