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In the last few years as companies have modernized their business applications, many have moved to microservices based architectures using containers on Kubernetes. A lot of the initial focus was on designing and building new cloud native architectures to support the applications. As environments have…
When building serverless event-driven applications using AWS Lambda, it is best practice to validate individual components. Unit testing can quickly identify and isolate issues in AWS Lambda function code. The techniques outlined in this blog demonstrates unit test techniques for Python-based AWS Lambda functions and…
Many organizations have adopted DevOps practices to streamline and automate software delivery and IT operations. A DevOps model can be adopted without sacrificing security by using automated compliance policies, fine-grained controls, and configuration management techniques. However, one of the key challenges customers face is analyzing…
FFmpeg is an industry standard, open source, widely used utility for handling video. FFmpeg has many capabilities, including encoding and decoding all video compression formats, encoding and decoding audio, encapsulating and extracting audio and video from transport streams, and much more. If AWS customers want…
Organizations that interface with online payments are continuously monitoring and guarding against fraudulent activity. Transactional fraud usually presents itself as discrete data points, making it challenging to identify multiple actors involved in the same group of transactions. Even a single actor operating over a period…
If you are hosting your own server productivity suite or file storage software, you cannot overlook Nextcloud, an open source platform to store, share and manage files over the web. In our previous blog post, we demonstrated how to securely connect your Nextcloud server with…
We would like to acknowledge the help and support Vikram Sethi, Isaac Mosquera, and Carlos Santana provided to make this blog post better. Thank you! In our previous blog posts [1,2,3], we have discussed a growing trend towards our customers adopting GitOps and Kubernetes native…
Today, we are pleased to announce a new Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS capability: Proactive Insights. DevOps Guru for RDS is a fully-managed service powered by machine learning (ML), that uses the data collected by RDS Performance Insights to detect and alert customers of anomalous…
FFmpeg is an open source tool commonly used by media technology companies to encode and transcode video and audio formats. FFmpeg users can leverage a cost efficient Amazon Web Services (AWS) instance for their video on demand (VOD) encoding workloads now that AWS offers VT1…
To avoid high costs of downtime, mission critical applications in the cloud need to achieve resilience against degradation of cloud provider APIs and services. In 2021, AWS launched AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS), a fully managed service to perform fault injection experiments on workloads in AWS…