6+ hour, 41+ min ago  (434+ words) Figure 1: Dimensions of a flexible platform architecture To cover critical design decisions, we use a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform as a vehicle of discussion, but part of the content will also resonate for other software delivery methods. This framework is illustrated…...

6+ hour, 3+ min ago  (826+ words) In this post, we explore how Dutchie successfully navigated the challenges of migrating mission-critical workloads to Amazon RDS for SQL Server in preparation for 4/20 week in 2025. As Dutchie scaled to serve its rapidly expanding customer base, the database architecture needed…...

6+ hour, 40+ min ago  (219+ words) Fiti AWS Student Community Kenya! Last week was an incredible whirlwind: a round of meetups, hands-on workshops, and career discussions across Kenya that culminated with the AWS Student Community Day at Meru University of Science and Technology, with keynotes from…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (1532+ words) The following graphic compares the traditional GovTech development workflow (on the left), which has the compliance review at the end, and Kiro's integrated approach with compliance validation happening throughout the development cycle. Figure 1: The traditional GovTech development workflow compared with…...

3+ day, 44+ min ago  (290+ words) Figure 1 " Solution Architecture for automated EC2 Relaunch The following prerequisites are required to complete the walkthrough: The first step is to deploy an EC2 instance configured to boot from a volume on the third-party storage that is prepared with an OS boot…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (691+ words) AWS Copilot CLI provides a simplified workflow for deploying containerized applications. A typical Copilot deployment involves initializing an application, creating a service, and deploying to environments using a declarative manifest file. Each environment contains a set of resources shared between…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago  (864+ words) An EventBridge rule triggers a Lambda function twice a year, coinciding with the switch to and from DST. The function, deployed in a designated AWS account, assumes an IAM role in the target AWS account to update RDS maintenance and…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago  (148+ words) This post explores three serverless architecture patterns that show how S3 Access Points enable cloud-native applications to access Amazon FSx file data alongside your existing file-based workloads, bridging traditional and modern computing approaches without data duplication. Figure 1: Amazon S3 Access Points for…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago  (573+ words) In this post, we walk through a multi-developer CI/CD pipeline for Amazon Lex that enables isolated development environments, automated testing, and streamlined deployments. We show you how to set up the solution and share real-world results from teams using…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago  (522+ words) This post demonstrates how to build custom model parsers for Strands agents when working with LLMs hosted on SageMaker that don't natively support the Bedrock Messages API format. We'll walk through deploying Llama 3.1 with SGLang on SageMaker using awslabs/ml-container-creator,…...