AWS Compute Blog
Hibernating EC2 Instances in Response to a CloudWatch Alarm
This blog post is written by Jose Guay, Technical Account Manger, Enterprise Support. A typical option to reduce costs associated with running Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances is to stop them when they are idle. However, there are scenarios where stopping an idle instance is not practical. For example, instances with development environments […]
Introducing Amazon MQ cross-Region data replication for ActiveMQ brokers
This post is written by Dominic Gagné, Senior Software Development Engineer, and Vinodh Kannan Sadayamuthu, Senior Solutions Architect Amazon MQ now supports cross-Region data replication for ActiveMQ brokers. This feature enables you to build regionally resilient messaging applications and makes it easier to set up cross-Region message replication between ActiveMQ brokers in Amazon MQ. This […]
Python 3.12 runtime now available in AWS Lambda
Lambda now supports Python 3.12. This release uses the Amazon Linux 2023 OS, supports Unicode responses, and graceful shutdown for functions with external extensions, and Python 3.12 language features.
Introducing support for read-only management events in Amazon EventBridge
Today, AWS is announcing support for read-only management events in Amazon EventBridge. This feature enables customers to build rich event-driven responses from any action taken on AWS infrastructure to detect security vulnerabilities or identify suspicious activity in near real-time. You can now gain insight into all activity across all your AWS accounts and respond to those events as is appropriate.
The attendee’s guide to the AWS re:Invent 2023 Compute track
This post by Art Baudo – Principal Product Marketing Manager – AWS EC2, and Pranaya Anshu – Product Marketing Manager – AWS EC2 We are just a few weeks away from AWS re:Invent 2023, AWS’s biggest cloud computing event of the year. This event will be a great opportunity for you to meet other cloud […]
Introducing advanced logging controls for AWS Lambda functions
Advanced logging controls for Lambda give you greater control over logging. Use advanced logging controls to control your Lambda function’s log level and format, allowing you to search, query, and filter logs to troubleshoot issues more effectively.
It’s About Time: Microsecond-Accurate Clocks on Amazon EC2 Instances
This post is written by Josh Levinson, AWS Principal Product Manager and Julien Ridoux, AWS Principal Software Engineer Today, we announced that we improved the Amazon Time Sync Service to microsecond-level clock accuracy on supported Amazon EC2 instances. This new capability adds a local reference clock to your EC2 instance and is designed to deliver […]
Introducing the AWS Integrated Application Test Kit (IATK)
The AWS Integrated Application Test Kit is a software library that provides conveniences to help you write automated tests for your cloud applications. This blog post shows some of the features of the initial Python version of the IATK.
Triggering AWS Lambda function from a cross-account Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka
This post is written by Subham Rakshit, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, and Ismail Makhlouf, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect. Many organizations use a multi-account strategy for stream processing applications. This involves decomposing the overall architecture into a single producer account and many consumer accounts. Within AWS, in the producer account, you can use Amazon Managed Streaming for […]
Introducing instance maintenance policy for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
This post is written by Ahmed Nada, Principal Solutions Architect, Flexible Compute and Kevin OConnor, Principal Product Manager, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling. Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers around the world trust Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to provision, scale, and manage Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) capacity for their workloads. Customers have come to rely […]