Category: Compute

Certain organizations require multi-Region redundancy for their workloads to achieve disaster recovery and business continuity. Disaster recovery is an important part of resiliency strategy and concerns how a workload responds when a disaster strikes. The most common pattern to have as a disaster recovery solution in AWS is to build a multi-Region application architecture including […]

More and more organizations are adopting graph databases for various use cases, such as legal entity lookup tools in the public sector, drug-drug interaction checkers in the healthcare sector, and customer insights and analytics tools in marketing. If your application has relationships and connections, using a relational database is hard. But HAQM Neptune, a fully […]

AWS AppSync is a fully managed service that makes it easy to develop GraphQL APIs by handling the heavy lifting of securely connecting to data sources like HAQM DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, and more. Adding caches to improve performance, subscriptions to support real-time updates, and client-side data stores that keep off-line clients in sync are just […]

HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. Traditional relational databases require time spent on capacity planning, maintenance, backup, and recovery; a substantial amount of a database administrator’s time is lost to these tasks. HAQM RDS helps DBAs to focus on other […]

HAQM Quantum Ledger Database (HAQM QLDB) is a fully managed ledger database that provides a transparent, immutable, and cryptographically verifiable transaction log. You can use HAQM QLDB to track each application data change, and it maintains a complete and verifiable history of changes over time. Because of those key features, banking customers have adopted HAQM QLDB as a database […]

As organizations work to modernize their traditional applications to an event-driven, serverless model, a question that comes up frequently is how the object-relational mapping (ORM) layer should be managed. Packaging it with AWS Lambda functions increases its size and adds a cognitive burden on the development team to track. In addition, many organizations have requirements […]

As an organization, you run critical applications on AWS, and the infrastructure that runs those critical applications can be spread across different accounts and have complex relationships. When you want to understand the landscape of your existing setup, it can seem daunting to go through lists of resources and try to understand how the resources […]

This is a guest post by Sergey Podlazov – Director of Engineering (Shopping Experience) at Zulily, Senthil Kumar, Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS, and Praveen Chamarthi, Sr. Technical Account Manager, AWS August 30, 2023: HAQM Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to HAQM Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog […]

Legacy application modernization can be complex. To reduce complexity and risk, you can choose an iterative approach by first replatforming the workload to HAQM Aurora. Then you can use the cloud-native integrations in Aurora to introduce other AWS services around the edges of the workload, often without changes to the application itself. This approach allows […]

When you authenticate with a web or mobile application, you typically do so with a username and password where you’re authenticated against a user database such as HAQM Cognito. You’re expected to secure your password and rotate it periodically or when it has been compromised. When you’re building a user-facing application that is running on […]