AWS Compute Blog

New: Zone Groups for Availability Zones in AWS Regions

This blog post is written by Pranav Chachra, Principal Product Manager, AWS. In 2019, AWS introduced Zone Groups for AWS Local Zones. Today, we’re announcing that we are working on extending the Zone Group construct to Availability Zones (AZs). Zone Groups were launched to help users of AWS Local Zones identify related groups of Local […]

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Measuring Amazon MQ throughput using Maven 2 benchmark and AWS CDK

This post is written by Olajide Enigbokan, Senior Solutions Architect and Mohammed Atiq, Solutions Architect In this post you will learn how to evaluate the throughput for Amazon MQ, a managed message broker service for ActiveMQ, by using the ActiveMQ Classic Maven Performance test plugin. This post will provide recommendations for configuring Amazon MQ to […]

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Efficiently processing batched data using parallelization in AWS Lambda

This post is written by Anton Aleksandrov, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS Serverless Efficient message processing is crucial when handling large data volumes. By employing batching, distribution, and parallelization techniques, you can optimize the utilization of resources allocated to your AWS Lambda function. This post will demonstrate how to implement parallel data processing within the Lambda function handler, maximizing […]

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Strengthening data security in AWS Step Functions with a customer-managed AWS KMS key

This post is written by Dhiraj Mahapatro, AWS Principal Specialist SA, Serverless. AWS Step Functions provides enhanced security with a customer-managed AWS KMS key. This allows organizations to maintain complete control over the encryption keys used to protect their data in Step Functions, ensuring that only allowed principals (IAM role, user, or a group) have access […]

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AWS Lambda introduces recursive loop detection APIs

This post is written by James Ngai, Senior Product Manager, AWS Lambda, and Aneel Murari, Senior Specialist SA, Serverless. Today, AWS Lambda is announcing new recursive loop detection APIs that allow you to set recursive loop detection configuration on individual Lambda functions. This allows you to turn off recursive loop detection on functions that intentionally use […]

Enabling high availability of Amazon EC2 instances on AWS Outposts servers (Part 2)

This blog post was written by Brianna Rosentrater – Hybrid Edge Specialist SA and Jessica Win – Software Development Engineer This post is Part 2 of the two-part series ‘Enabling high availability of Amazon EC2 instances on AWS Outposts servers’, providing you with code samples and considerations for implementing custom logic to automate Amazon Elastic […]

Amazon EC2 auto-relaunch custom logic on AWS Outposts server architecture.

Enabling high availability of Amazon EC2 instances on AWS Outposts servers (Part 1)

This blog post is written by Brianna Rosentrater – Hybrid Edge Specialist SA and Jessica Win – Software Development Engineer. This post is part 1 of the two-part series ‘Enabling high availability of Amazon EC2 instances on AWS Outposts servers’, providing you with code samples and considerations for implementing custom logic to automate Amazon Elastic […]

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Using Amazon APerf to go from 50% below to 36% above performance target

This post is written by Tyler Jones, Senior Solutions Architect – Graviton, AWS. Performance tuning the Renaissance Finagle-http benchmark Sometimes software doesn’t perform the way it’s expected to across different systems. This can be due to a configuration error, code bug, or differences in hardware performance. Amazon APerf is a powerful tool designed to help […]

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, […]