AWS Compute Blog

This post is written by Letian Feng, Principal Product Manager for AWS Compute Optimizer, and Steve Cole, Senior EC2 Spot Specialist Solutions Architect. Today, AWS Compute Optimizer is launching a new capability that makes it easier for you to optimize your EC2 instances by leveraging multiple CPU architectures, including x86-based and AWS Graviton-based instances. Compute […]

This post is written by Carlos Manzanedo Rueda, WW SA Leader for EC2 Spot, and Brandon Wagner, Senior Software Development Engineer for EC2. This post focuses on how you can leverage recently released tools to optimize your usage of Amazon EC2 Spot Instances on Kubernetes Operations (kOps) clusters. Spot Instances let you utilize unused capacity […]

Lambda functions now support ES modules in Node.js 14.x runtimes. ES modules support await at the top-level of function code. Using top-level await maximizes the effectiveness of provisioned concurrency and can reduce the latency experienced by end users during cold starts.

This blog post performs address validation with the Amazon Location Service, demonstrating both geocoding and reverse geocoding capabilities. Using a serverless architecture with S3 and Lambda, you can achieve both cost optimization and performance improvement compared with traditional methods of address validation.

Welcome to the 16th edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. Every quarter, we share all of the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts, webinars, Twitch live streams, and other interesting things that you might have missed! In case you missed our last ICYMI, check out what […]

This post discusses how to perform a load test on a serverless workload. The process was used to validate a scale of Simple Trivia Service, a single- and multi-player game built using a serverless-first architecture on AWS.

Contributed by Samartha Chandrashekar, Principal Product Manager Amazon EC2 At re:Invent 2021, we announced NitroTPM, a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 and Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot support in Amazon EC2. In this blog post, we’ll share additional details on how these capabilities can help further raise the security bar of EC2 deployments. […]

This blog explains the choices when designing a cross-Region or a hybrid network of brokers architecture that spans AWS and your data centers. The example starts with a concentrator topology and enhances that with a cross-Region design to help address network routing and network security requirements.

This post is written by: Josh Bonello, Senior DevOps Architect, AWS Professional Services; Wes Fabella, Senior DevOps Architect, AWS Professional Services Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. The introduction of Amazon EC2 Mac now enables macOS based workloads to run in the AWS Cloud. […]

This blog post is written by Mark Richman, a Senior Solutions Architect for SMB. Today AWS is launching a new capability to enhance the dead-letter queue (DLQ) management experience for Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS). DLQ redrive to source queues allows SQS to manage the lifecycle of unconsumed messages stored in DLQs. SQS is a […]