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Amazon downsizes AWS in a fresh cost-cutting round

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In a fresh round of layoffs, Amazon is laying off hundreds in the company’s cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS). The layoffs will affect AWS’ sales, marketing, and brick-and-mortar technology development teams. Amazon’s cloud computing division has long been a key driver of its profitability.

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Cross account AWS resource access using Terraform

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Note that this requires control over both accounts as you need to provision resources in both. This way we are sure the lambda cannot affect any other resource in the secondary account. The terraform template contains a number of variables: var.region : AWS region in which pinpoint is provisioned.

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What happens when you leak AWS credentials and how AWS minimizes the damage

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I heard multiple times that AWS scans public GitHub repositories for AWS credentials and informs its users of the leaked credentials. So I am curious to see this for myself, so I decided to intentionally leak AWS credentials to a Public GitHub repository. Below you will find detailed information about every event.

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AWS launches no-code service AppFabric with generative AI assistance

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Tuesday unveiled a new no-code offering, dubbed AppFabric, designed to simplify SaaS integration for enterprises by increasing application observability and reducing operational costs associated with building point-to-point solutions. AppFabric, which is available across AWS’ US East (N.

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Monitoring AWS Container Environments at Scale

Particularly well-suited for microservice-oriented architectures and agile workflows, containers help organizations improve developer efficiency, feature velocity, and optimization of resources.

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High-performance computing on AWS

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How does High-Performance Computing on AWS differ from regular computing? With common compute resources most (serial) computing challenges can be solved. Resources are available on-demand, no ordering/waiting time for the deployment of resources. AWS has two services to support your HPC workload.

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AWS Lambda Benchmarking

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In this blog post, we examine the relative costs of different language runtimes on AWS Lambda. Many languages can be used with AWS Lambda today, so we focus on four interesting ones. Rust just came to AWS Lambda in November 2023 , so probably a lot of folks are wondering whether to try it out.

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