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Monitor Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB performance using the Timestream for InfluxDB Metrics dashboardby Forest Vey on October 7, 2025 at 5:25 pm
The Timestream for InfluxDB Metrics dashboard adds the ability to perform trend analysis, create actionable insights, set up alerts, and automate reporting. You can configure the Timestream for InfluxDB Metrics dashboard to suit your business needs and build a robust and optimized time series workflow. In this post we walk you through how to deploy the Timestream for InfluxDB Metrics dashboard to start monitoring the performance of your fleet of Timestream for InfluxDB databases.
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New AWS whitepaper: Security Overview of Amazon EKS Auto Modeby Todd Neal on October 7, 2025 at 4:57 pm
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released a new whitepaper: Security Overview of Amazon EKS Auto Mode, providing customers with an in-depth look at the architecture, built-in security features, and capabilities of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Auto Mode. The whitepaper covers the core security principles of Amazon EKS Auto Mode, highlighting its unique approach
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Moeve: Controlling resource deployment at scale with AWS CloudFormation Guard Hooksby Pablo Sánchez Carmona on October 7, 2025 at 11:50 am
This post is co-written with Rayco Martínez Hernández, Head of Cloud Governance at Moeve. Moeve, formerly known as Cepsa, is a global integrated energy company with over 90 years of experience and more than 11,000 employees. Moeve is committed to driving Europe’s energy transition and accelerating decarbonization efforts. The company has embraced digital transformation to
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Building self-managed RAG applications with Amazon EKS and Amazon S3 Vectorsby Venkata Sistla on October 6, 2025 at 11:34 pm
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a technique that optimizes large language model (LLM) outputs by referencing authoritative knowledge bases outside of the model’s training data before generating responses. This addresses common limitations of traditional LLMs, such as outdated knowledge, hallucinated facts, and misinterpreted terminology. Organizations can implement RAG to enhance their generative AI applications with current,
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Beyond Bootstrap: Bootstrapless CDK Deployments at GoDaddyby Juan Pablo Melgarejo Zamora on October 6, 2025 at 9:45 pm
This is a guest post written by Ramanathan Nachiappan from GoDaddy. In the world of infrastructure as code, the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) has revolutionized how teams define and provision cloud resources. Central to its operation is the bootstrapping process, which ensures all required resources and permissions are in place to enable secure
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Introducing new compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instancesby Channy Yun (윤석찬) on October 6, 2025 at 8:33 pm
AWS launched compute-optimized C8i and C8i-flex EC2 instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS to offer up to 15% better price performance, 20% higher performance, and 2.5 times more memory throughput compared to previous generations.
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AWS IAM Identity Center now supports customer-managed KMS keys for encryption at restby Sébastien Stormacq on October 6, 2025 at 7:52 pm
Gain control over encryption and comply with regulations using customer-managed keys for AWS IAM Identity Center’s user data and passwords.
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AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock, AWS Outposts, Amazon ECS Managed Instances, AWS Builder ID, and more (October 6, 2025)by Prasad Rao on October 6, 2025 at 3:42 pm
Last week, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5—the world’s best coding model according to SWE-Bench – became available in Amazon Q command line interface (CLI) and Kiro. I’m excited about this for two reasons: First, a few weeks ago I spent 4 intensive days with a global customer delivering an AI-assisted development workshop, where I experienced firsthand
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Reduce Docker image build time on AWS CodeBuild using Amazon ECR as a remote cacheby Kirubakaran Sundaramoorthy on October 3, 2025 at 3:01 pm
In modern software development, containerization with Docker has revolutionized how we build and deploy applications. While Docker enables packaging applications into portable containers, the continuous need to update these images can be resource intensive. AWS CodeBuild addresses this challenge by providing a managed build service that eliminates infrastructure maintenance overhead. In this blog post, we’ll
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Multi-Cloud Code Deployments using Amazon Q Developer with Echo3Dby Kevon Mayers on October 3, 2025 at 2:59 pm
Overview Founded in 2018, echo3D built a revolutionary 3D digital asset management (DAM) platform to address the surging demand for immersive content across industries. The company’s platform enables enterprises to seamlessly store, secure, optimize, and share 3D content, serving over 200,000 professionals across energy, healthcare, gaming, retail, and beyond. echo3D’s platform has become the go-to
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Key components of a data-driven agentic AI applicationby Marc Brooker on October 3, 2025 at 2:29 pm
In this post, we look at the costs, benefits, and drawbacks of replacing services for agentic AI with direct database access. Including those that work well and are proven in production, and new services yet to be built. Let’s take a closer look at the anatomy of an agentic AI application and what would factor into such decisions.
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Build a dynamic workflow orchestration engine with Amazon DynamoDB and AWS Lambdaby Xan Huang on October 2, 2025 at 10:06 pm
In this post, I show you how to build a serverless workflow orchestration engine that uses Amazon DynamoDB and AWS Lambda. The complete implementation is available in a GitHub repository, which includes two fully functional examples that you can deploy and run immediately to see the orchestration engine in action.
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Set up proactive monitoring for Amazon RDS for SQL Server with real-time Slack notificationsby Kanchan Bhattacharyya on October 2, 2025 at 10:04 pm
In this post, we demonstrate how to build an efficient, serverless monitoring system for Amazon RDS for SQL Server using AWS native services and Slack integration.
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Defending against supply chain attacks like Chalk/Debug and the Shai-Hulud wormby Chi Tran on October 2, 2025 at 4:43 pm
Building on top of open source packages can help accelerate development. By using common libraries and modules from npm, PyPI, Maven Central, NuGet, and others, teams can focus on writing code that is unique to their situation. These open source package registries host millions of packages that are integrated into thousands of programs daily. Unfortunately,
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Enhance your SMB file transfer security with Kerberos and AWS DataSyncby Andrew Riley on October 1, 2025 at 9:05 pm
Businesses replicate data from on-premises file shares to the cloud to power analytics processes, enable migrations, or free up archival storage. When authenticating to Windows Server Message Block (SMB) file shares, the NTLM protocol has been ubiquitous for decades. However, Microsoft announced its deprecation in 2024. Whether your business operates in a highly regulated industry
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Simplify cross-account storage management with Amazon EFS and Amazon EKSby Samyak Kathane on October 1, 2025 at 3:30 pm
Organizations are increasingly adopting a multi-account Amazon Web Services (AWS) strategy to achieve enhanced security, governance, and operational efficiency at scale. Implementing separate accounts for production and non-production environments enables enterprises to group workloads based on business purpose, apply distinct security postures by environments, restrict access to sensitive data, and streamline cost management. You can
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Accelerating AWS Infrastructure Deployment: A Practical Guide to Console-to-Codeby Damola Oluyemo on September 30, 2025 at 11:47 pm
In today’s cloud-first environment, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has become crucial for managing cloud resources effectively. However, organizations often face significant challenges in adopting IaC practices, including steep learning curves, complex syntax requirements, and difficulty translating manual operations into code. Amazon Q Developer‘s Console-to-Code feature addresses these challenges by providing an intuitive bridge between manual AWS
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Announcing Amazon ECS Managed Instances for containerized applicationsby Micah Walter on September 30, 2025 at 6:46 pm
Amazon ECS Managed Instances is a new compute option that eliminates infrastructure management overhead while giving you access to the broad suite of EC2 capabilities including the flexibility to select instance types, access reserved capacity, and advanced security and observability configurations.
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Announcing AWS Outposts third-party storage integration with Dell and HPEby Micah Walter on September 30, 2025 at 4:39 pm
AWS Outposts is now integrated with Dell PowerStore and HPE Alletra MP B10000 systems, enabling customers to seamlessly use their on-premises external storage infrastructure with AWS services while maintaining data residency requirements.
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Defending LLM applications against Unicode character smugglingby Russell Dranch on September 30, 2025 at 4:22 pm
When interacting with AI applications, even seemingly innocent elements—such as Unicode characters—can have significant implications for security and data integrity. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we continuously evaluate and address emerging threats across aspects of AI systems. In this blog post, we explore Unicode tag blocks, a specific range of characters spanning from U+E0000 to