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Contributed by Amr Ragab, HPC Application Consultant, AWS Professional Services AWS provides several managed services for file- and streaming-based media encoding options. Amazon Elastic Transcoder and AWS Elemental MediaConvert each provide several options for video/audio transcoding, optimized for various client devices. AWS Elemental Live provides online streaming-based encoding from edge camera devices. Through AWS Greengrass, edge […]

This post was contributed by Jason Umiker, AWS Solutions Architect. Whether it’s helping facilitate a journey to microservices or deploying existing tools more easily and repeatably, many customers are moving toward containerized infrastructure and workflows. AWS provides many of the services and mechanisms to help you with that. In this post, I show you how […]

This post courtesy of Mayank Thakkar, AWS Senior Solutions Architect Serverless computing refers to an architecture discipline that allows you to build and run applications or services without thinking about servers. You can focus on your applications, without worrying about provisioning, scaling, or managing any servers. You can use serverless architectures for nearly any type […]

Contributed by Mike Owen, Solutions Architect, AWS Thinkbox The elasticity, scalability, and cost effectiveness of the cloud value proposition is attractive to media customers. One of the key design patterns in media and entertainment (M&E) workloads is using the cloud as a content lake and bringing the underlying processes closer without having to synchronize data. […]

This post courtesy of Tapodipta Ghosh, AWS Solutions Architect Amazon API Gateway provides you with a simple, flexible, secure, and fully managed service that lets you focus on building core business services. API Gateway supports multiple mechanisms of access control using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS Lambda authorizers, and Amazon Cognito. You may […]

This post is courtesy of Sam Dengler, AWS Solutions Architect. Message brokers can be used to solve a number of needs in enterprise architectures, including managing workload queues and broadcasting messages to a number of subscribers. Some AWS customers are using RabbitMQ today and would like to migrate to a managed service to reduce the […]

This post is courtesy of Arend Castelein, Software Development Engineer – AWS Want a simpler way to query for the latest Amazon Linux AMI? AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store already allows for querying the latest Windows AMI. Now, support has been expanded to include the latest Amazon Linux AMI. Each Amazon Linux AMI now has […]

One of the biggest trends in application development today is the use of APIs to power the backend technologies supporting a product. Increasingly, the way mobile, IoT, web applications, or internal services talk to each other and to application frontends is using some API interface. Alongside this trend of building API-powered applications is the move […]

This post was contributed by Nare Hayrapetyan, Sr. Software Engineer Many customers are excited about new microservices management tools and technologies like service mesh. Specifically, they ask how to get started using Envoy on AWS.  In this post, I walk through setting up an Envoy reverse proxy on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). This example […]

Contributed by Amr Ragab, HPC Application Consultant, AWS Professional Services AWS currently supports many managed des­ktop delivery mechanisms. Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon AppStream 2.0 both deliver managed Windows-based machine images with GPU-backed instances. However, many desktop services and applications are better served through a Linux backed instance. Given the variety of Linux distributions as well […]