Category: Compute

Ian Scofield is a Partner Solutions Architect (SA) at AWS.  In a previous post in our series, we showed how to use an AWS CloudFormation launch stack URL to help customers create a cross-account role in their AWS account. As mentioned in an earlier APN Blog post, a cross-account role is the recommended method to […]

By Carmen Puccio and Mandus Momberg, Partner Solutions Architects at AWS focused on Migration It’s no secret that migrating software and services from an on-premises environment to the cloud entails unique considerations and requirements. To provide confidence in the outcome of your migration, your migration strategy needs to scale easily. This means that a large […]

Erin McGill co-authored this blog with Mike Ruiz. Both Erin and Mike are AWS Partner Solutions Architects.  Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) provides a secure, durable, highly scalable, and simple way to store your object data. It’s easy to create new buckets to contain data, and to store and retrieve any amount of data […]

In 2016, we hosted 38 guest posts from AWS Partner Solutions Architects (SAs), who work very closely with both Consulting and Technology Partners as they build solutions on AWS. As we kick off 2017, I want to take a look back at all of the fantastic content created by our SAs. A few key themes emerged […]

The following is a guest post from Matt Garmur, CTO at CrowdTangle, a startup and APN Technology Partner who makes it easy for you to keep track of what’s happening on social media. Enjoy! Horses were awesome. If you had a messenger service 150 years ago, using horses was so much better than the alternative, walking. […]

By Mike Deck, Partner Solutions Architect, AWS When AWS Lambda was launched in 2014, it unlocked an ability for AWS customers and partners to implement full-featured, scalable solutions without the need to deploy or manage any servers. I work with many SaaS partners who are now leveraging the serverless model for various components of their architecture. […]

Christopher Crosbie was also a contributor on this post. In his new book, The Death of Cancer, world renowned oncologist Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr. laments: “… it illustrates what has been, for me, a source of perennial frustration: at this date, we are not limited by the science; we are limited by our ability […]

Today, Advanced all-in APN Technology Partner Sumo Logic, also an AWS Big Data and Security Competency Partner, made its App for AWS Lambda generally available and introduced a purpose-built Lambda function, which is immediately available for launch in the AWS Blueprint library. My colleague Bryan Liston wrote a great blog post about the launch over on […]

Editor’s note: This is the second of a popular two-part series by Nick Matthews. Read Part 1 >> By Nick Matthews, Partner Solutions Architect, CCIE #23560 In the previous post on Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), we covered the basic anatomy of a VPC and the different ways to connect a VPC to the outside world. […]

Editor’s note: This is the first of a popular two-part series by Nick Matthews. Read Part 2 >> By Nick Matthews, Partner Solutions Architect, CCIE #23560 I relate better to networking when people use words and phrases I know, such as “router on a stick,” “MPLS WAN,” and “VRF,” and then show me a packet […]